The US Congress delegation chaired by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham arrived in Kyiv, where it will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Defense Minister Andriy Taran, the US Embassy in Kyiv told Interfax-Ukraine.
It is clarified that the delegation includes US Senators Lindsey Graham (republican, South Carolina), John Barrasso (republican, Wyoming), Ben Sasso (republican, Nebraska), Tommy Tuberville (republican, Alabama) and Congressman William Timmons (republican, South Carolina ).
The delegation is to meet with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as with Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Defense Minister Andriy Taran.
PrJSC United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC), which manages Vilnohirsk Mining and Metallurgical Plant (Dnipropetrovsk region) and Irshansk Mining and Processing Plant (Zhytomyr region), significantly increased production indicators in August this year.
According to the company’s information on Monday, Vilnohirsk Mining and Metallurgical Plant last month fulfilled the planned targets for stripping by 111.7%, production by 111.5% and road transportation by 102.9%. At the same time, it is noted that the achieved production indicators are the highest since the beginning of the year.
The situation is similar with the implementation of the plan at Irshansk Mining: in August, the stripping plan was fulfilled by 123.3%, and production – by 100%.
“The increase in production indicators became possible thanks to restoration of the mining equipment fleet, reduction of technological downtime, reduction of equipment emergency stops and successful capital investments during the year,” the press release states.
In addition, it is reported that UMCC launched a large-scale social program in August. In order to reduce the organic matter pollution of surface waters supplied to a pumping and filtering station of a water supply shop of Vilnohirsk Mining for further treatment, in August the company began reconstruction of water intake facilities of the pumping station on the Dnipro River. This will provide the residents of Vilnohirsk and a number of settlements of Dnipropetrovsk region with high-quality drinking water.
The United Mining and Chemical Company began its actual activity in August 2014, when the government of Ukraine decided to transfer the property complexes of Vilnohirsk and Irshansk plants under its management.
UMCC sells its products to more than 30 countries of the world and is one of the world’s largest producers of titanium raw materials, occupying 4% of the world market. The main sales markets are the EU, China, Turkey, as well as the United States and African countries.
Updated routes and fares are already available on the airline’s website
WINDROSE became the first airline in Ukraine to develop its own Skypasses. Their advantage was a fixed price and no restrictions for booking. The sales of Skypasses were suspended for a while due to the necessity to change their format.
The commercial director of the airline Olha Tolstykhina commented on the service update: “We considered our passengers’ requests and offers. Our route map within Ukraine has significantly expanded over the past six months, so we need to make our fares more flexible. These Skypasses include additional services — Skypass can be “freezed” or its validity can be extended, in addition, our passengers can choose the type of Skypasses depending on their most frequent flight destinations”.
4 types of Skypasses are available on WINDROSE website:
– ZHOVTYI
– BLAKYTNYI
– ZHOVTO-BLAKYTNYI
– ZHOVTO-BLAKYTNYI+
Learn more about flight destinations, prices and conditions on our website
https://windrose.aero/tickets/travel_card/
Such an offer is really advantageous if you often travel within Ukraine. You don`t need to book tickets in advance, and regardless of the departure date the price is fixed. Also passengers can buy the Skypass as a gift card.
As of September 3, sugar production in Ukraine amounted to 4,920 tonnes, a total of 49,600 tonnes of sugar beet were processed.
According to a report on the website of the National Association of Sugar Producers Ukrtsukor, on the indicated date two sugar factories were opened – Selysche sugar refinery (Selysche, Cherkasy region, part of the agricultural holding Panda) and Haisyn sugar refinery (Vinnytsia region, Ukrprominvest-Agro).
As of September 6, the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food does not have data on harvest of sugar beets by Ukrainian farmers.
As reported, the current season of sugar beet processing started in the country on August 21.
The Ministry of Economy expects sugar production in Ukraine in the 2021/2022 marketing year (MY, September-August) at 1.4 million tonnes, which is 30% more than in the last MY. The total supply of this product in the current season will amount to 1.74 million tonnes due to the growth of its production in the current MY and its significant residues (0.42 million tonnes) transferred from the last MY, which will be sufficient to meet the domestic demand, which is approximately 1.25 million tonnes.
Natural gas to the territory of Ukraine in August 2021 was imported at an average price of $427.88 (UAH 11,457) per 1,000 cubic meters, the Ministry of Economy reported on Monday.
Thus, the price of gas imported in the past month was 19.7% higher than the price of July 2021 in U.S. dollars, when it stood at $357.32 (UAH 9,747) per 1,000 cubic meters.
Elina Svitolina has reached the quarterfinal of the US Open – the US open tennis championship, which is the fourth and final tennis tournament in the Grand Slam series, the Grand Tennis of Ukraine said on its website.
Svitolina defeated her principal rival Simona Halep from Romania in the 1/8 final of the US Open with the scores of 6:3 and 6:3.
This was the tenth meeting of the rivals and the sixth victory of the Ukrainian. However, the first one was at the Grand Slam tournaments: the previous two were won by the Romanian.
In the quarter-finals, Svitolina will play with the winner of the meeting between Angelique Kerber from Germany and Canadian Leylah Fernandez.
