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Ukraine in January-February 2019 acquired nuclear fuel for a total of $45.155 million.
According to the State Statistics Service, in the two months of the current year, Russian-made fuel was purchased for Ukrainian nuclear power plants for $17.437 million, fuel from Sweden for $27.719 million.
Thus, the share of purchases of nuclear fuel by Ukraine for the reporting period from TVEL (Russia) in monetary terms was 38.6%, from Westinghouse (Sweden) some 61.4%.
The operator of all four NPPs in Ukraine is state-owned enterprise Energoatom, which purchases nuclear fuel under the contracts with TVEL and Westinghouse Electric Sweden.
The French group AgroGeneration with assets in Ukraine in 2018 received EUR8.52 million of net loss, which is 35.3% less than in 2017.
According to the report on the company’s website, its revenue decreased by 24.3%, to EUR41 million, gross profit by 29.7%, to EUR11.27 million. Operating profit for the year increased by 1.8 times, to EUR1.48 million.
EBITDA in 2018 rose by 11.8%, to EUR10.17 million. Net debt rose by 36.8% by the end of the year, to EUR62.16 million.
The share of export sales last year fell to 52% from 57% in 2017.
In 2018, AgroGeneration produced about 328,100 tonnes of grains and oilseeds from 105,200 hectares, which is 8.7% less than in 2017.
“The decline is due to the difficult weather conditions that affected early crops (especially wheat and barley). Despite this, the yield of AgroGeneration remains higher than the average figure in the Ukrainian agricultural sector,” the report says.
The Confederation of Constructors of Ukraine has named the key issues in the construction sphere, the settling of which is expected from president-elect Volodymyr Zelensky, in particular, reform of the State Architectural and Construction Inspectorate and the introduction of BIM technologies.
“Radical reforming of the State Architectural and Construction Inspectorate of Ukraine, separation of administrative services and supervisory functions in accordance with the current legislation of Ukraine. The functions of the State Architectural and Construction Inspectorate should be digitalized and transparent. Obtaining permits for construction should take place in line with detailed technological maps in the period specified by the legislation”, the confederation said in a statement.
In addition, the confederation expects increased control over the quality of projects and construction works, as well as the introduction of professional responsibility of experts evaluating projects and the personal responsibility of Construction Inspectorate inspectors. Enhancing the role of self-governing organizations in licensing, market supervision, and certification of qualified specialists at all stages of construction projects also belongs to the fundamental issues of reforming the sphere.
The confederation also emphasizes the seriousness of the issue of maintaining a balanced export-import policy in relation to building materials and technologies.
At the same time, the confederation noted the need to reanimate the government mortgage and support programs for the purchase of housing. In addition, it is important to stimulate the implementation of large construction projects, as well as the creation of industrial enterprises as part of industrial parks or individual industries.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) will send part of its profit for 2018 in the amount of UAH 64.878 billion to the national budget, Head of the NBU Council Bohdan Danylyshyn wrote on his Facebook page, referring to the decision of the NBU Council, on Tuesday.
“The Council decided to approve the distribution of profits of the National Bank of Ukraine for 2018 in the amount of UAH 64.878 billion in the following areas: the formation of total reserves of net worth of the National Bank of Ukraine – UAH 3.566 billion; obligations of the National Bank of Ukraine to the national budget of Ukraine for 2018 year – UAH 64.878 billion,” he wrote.
As reported on the website of the NBU, the main components of the profit of the central bank are the interest profit, as well as the results of operations with financial assets and liabilities in foreign currency and financial tools.
Net interest income after the release of reserves for 2018 is UAH 34.9 billion (in 2017 – UAH 45.2 billion). In 2018, the result of currency revaluation for the first time since 2013 became negative due to the strengthening of the hryvnia exchange rate to foreign currencies and amounts to UAH 2.2 billion. A positive result from the revaluation of debt securities at fair value is UAH 6.7 billion (in 2017 – UAH 2.7 billion). Administrative expenses of the NBU and costs associated with the manufacture of banknotes, coins and other products amount to UAH 3.78 billion (in 2017 – UAH 3.59 billion). Also in 2018, funds secured for legal obligations, including lawsuits, in the amount of UAH 2.1 billion were released.
The schedule for transferring part of the NBU profit for 2018 to the national budget will be agreed with the Finance Ministry of Ukraine, the NBU said.
