Ryanair, the largest low-cost airline in Europe, will fly from Odesa and Kharkiv to Poznan from October 30 and 27 respectively, according to the airline’s ticket booking system.
Flights from Kharkiv to Poznan will be operated from October 27 twice a week on Tuesdays and Sundays with departure at 22:00 from Kharkiv and at 18:00 from Poznan.
Ryanair will launch Odesa-Poznan flights from October 30 with a frequency of twice a week. Departure from Odesa will be at 21:30 on Wednesdays and at 10:30 on Saturdays, departure from Poznan will be at 17:45 on Wednesdays and at 06:30 on Saturdays.
The minimum one-way ticket price for these destinations starts from EUR28.
The booking system also indicates that both destinations are seasonal.
Such airlines as LOT, Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines fly from Odesa to Poznan, while LOT and Belavia from Kharkiv.
The market of imported alcohol in Ukraine in 2019 will grow by 8-10%, Bayadera Group, one of the largest alcohol companies in the Ukrainian market, predicts.
“According to experts, the imported alcohol market in 2019 will grow by 8-10%. Significant development is expected in the segment of foreign wines, while premium and luxury brands will have a steady increase of 2-3%,” the press service of Bayadera Group reported.
According to Bayadera Group, the structure of the import market in Ukraine has changed towards still wines (25%) and whiskey (20%). Sparkling wine and champagne (15% each) rank third among imported alcohol, brandy and cognac (about 12%) rank fourth, while rum (10%) is fifth.
According to the report, Bayadera Group imports almost all categories of alcohol, sales of imported products in 2018 increased by 17%. The main imports are Italian, French, Spanish, Chilean and German wines. The company intends in 2019 to focus on manufacturers, with which it already works, it does not plan to bring new large brands to the market.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) has received data of 99.88% of the protocols in the presidential elections of Ukraine.
Voting data are expected in Vinnytsia region (99.81% of protocols have been processed), in Kyiv region (99.36% of protocols have been processed), in Odesa region (99.31% of protocols have been processed), in Kherson region (99.87% of protocols have been processed), and in Chernivtsi region (98,23% of protocols have been processed).
Presidential candidates Volodymyr Zelensky and incumbent President Petro Poroshenko have received 30.23% and 15.95% of votes cast on March 31, respectively. Thus, they go into a second round of elections.
Some 13.39% of voters cast ballots for Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, followed by Opposition Platform – For Life candidate Yuriy Boiko with 11.67%.
Civil Position Party leader Anatoliy Hrytsenko received 6.91%, followed by ex-SBU State Security Service head Ihor Smeshko with 6.04%, Radical Party leader Oleh Liashko with 5.47%, Opposition Bloc leader Oleksandr Vilkul with 4.15%, and Svoboda Party leader Ruslan Koshulynsky with 1.62%.
Other candidates had less than 1% of the vote. Some 1.18% of ballots cast were ruled invalid.
According to the law, the presidential elections in Ukraine are held in two rounds. If in the first round on March 31 one of the candidates gets more than 50% of the votes cast, he is declared the winner. Otherwise, a second vote is held (second round), in which two candidates, who have scored the most votes in the first round, take part.
