An earthquake with a magnitude of 2.9 occurred in Lviv region on Sunday, January 10, the press service of the Main Center for Special Control of the State Space Agency of Ukraine reported.
So, on January 10, the Main Center for Special Control registered an earthquake with a magnitude (on the Richter scale) of 2.9 at 13:13.
It is noted that the source of the earthquake was located in Sambir district at a depth of 5 km. The vibrations did not pose a threat to the population; they could be felt by individuals inside the premises, especially on the upper floors.
The pharmaceutical company Interchem (Odesa), the double liability company, is developing a new anesthetic drug, preparing an international dossier for it, Director General of Interchem Anatoliy Reder has said.
“The drug will be an anesthetic. It is original, completely new, it is a new molecule. We have been deeply studying it for three or four years,” he said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
Reder said that the company will develop a dossier for this drug in accordance with international standards.
“For us in this project, it is important that we first thought about how to form an international dossier of the new drug. For one reason or another, we always had a dossier, either Soviet or Ukrainian. Today we understand that an international dossier is needed, and we want to try making it for this drug,” he said.
Reder said that the company has begun collaborating with an international research organization that will conduct preclinical trials of the new drug.
According to Reder’s forecasts, the development of the new drug could take one and a half or two years.
“We hope that within one and a half or two years the pills will appear in Ukraine,” he said.
Interchem is one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the country.
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 11/01/21
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of January 11
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
Average monthly wage by region in Oct 2020, UAH.
The energy company DTEK is creating an investment hub for the new Ukrainian energy sector in London, which is scheduled to start operating at the end of the first half of 2021, the press service of DTEK said on Friday, January 8.
“We are creating a hub to attract investments in new energy projects in Ukraine. First of all, this concerns renewable energy sources, energy storage systems and energy projects using hydrogen. Together with the increase in gas production and the development of networks, these areas are identified as priorities in our new strategy,” CEO of DTEK Maksym Tymchenko said, whose words are quoted in the release.
According to him, the specially created company DTEK International Ltd. will carry out operational activities to attract investment to Ukraine in the UK.
The message also indicates that the new DTEK office will be located in the City of London and will be aimed at working both with investors wishing to invest in Ukraine and with Ukrainian entrepreneurs developing energy projects.
As reported, according to the new strategy of DTEK 2030, the company undertook, in particular, commitments to achieve compliance with European legislation on harmful emissions by 2025 and become carbon neutral by 2040, will continue the practice of introducing a wireless Wi-Fi network at its coal mining assets, intends to expand power grid assets in Ukraine and the EU countries and its activity in green energy, including new renewable energy projects outside Ukraine, as well as trading on the markets of EU countries.
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