Last year, Kyiv region received more than UAH 1.155 billion from the state budget to purchase 497 apartments for veterans and their families, Kyiv Regional State Administration reported in a telegram on Saturday.
Thanks to the support of Andriy Zasukha’s charitable foundation and Kolos Kovalivka football club, the first inclusive town with 59 modern houses for veterans was built in the region.
There are nine veteran hubs in the region. These include three classic hubs in Boryspil, Brovary and Irpin, as well as six veteran spaces. Another hub in Bila Tserkva is planned to open soon.
Since the beginning of 2024, 753 combatants have applied to the Kyiv Regional Employment Service. Thanks to the support of the service, 208 people have already found jobs.
There are already 98 veteran-owned businesses in the region, enabling former military personnel to realize their entrepreneurial initiatives.
Over the course of the war, the United States has allocated $177 billion to Ukraine, but we have not received half of these funds, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
“If we take, for example, the money of the United States of America, during this entire time of this war, about 177 billion dollars have been voted or decided. Let’s be honest. We haven’t received half of this money,” Zelensky said in an interview with Lex Friedman published on Sunday on the YouTube channel of the Office of the President of Ukraine.
Average price per hectare of land in 2023, UAH
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A little wet snow and rain is expected on Monday night, January 6, in western regions, and in the afternoon throughout Ukraine, according to Ukrhydrometzetr.
On the roads of the country, except for the south, in some places icy. The wind is southern, 7-12 m/s, in the west, in the afternoon and southern regions in some places gusts of 15-20 m/s.
Temperatures at night 3-8° frost; during the day from 1° frost to 4° warm, in the Carpathian region, in the Crimea and most of the southern regions 4-9° warm.
In Kiev on January 6, there will be no precipitation at night and light wet snow and rain during the day. The wind is southerly, 7-12 m/s. The temperature at night 4-6° frost, during the day 0-2° warm.
According to the Central Geophysical Observatory named after Borys Sreznevsky, in Kiev for all the time of meteorological observations, the highest temperature on January 6 was recorded in 1988 at 9.8° of heat, the lowest in 1935 at 30.8° of frost.
Tuesday, January 7, in Ukraine without precipitation, only in the eastern and northeastern regions at night a little wet snow. On the roads of the country, except for the south, in some places icy. Wind south, southwest, 7-12 m/s.
Temperatures at night from 4° warm to 1° frost; in the daytime 4-9° warm, in southern regions and in the Carpathian region 7-12°. In the Carpathians without precipitation, daytime temperature 0-5° warm.
In Kiev on January 7, no precipitation. The roads are icy in places. The wind is south, southwest, 7-12 m/s. The temperature at night 0-2° of heat, during the day 6-8°.
The next U.S. presidential administration may try to convene a conference of sorts on Ukraine in the near future, according to an article published on the website of the British newspaper The Telegraph on Sunday.
“When exactly will depend on the willingness of Putin and President Zelensky to hold such talks, as well as an agreement on the chair, agenda and venue. It may also depend on Russia, especially on whether it commits outrageous acts that could make such talks impossible in the light of international opinion. The recent downing of the Azerbaijani airliner is exactly the kind of act that confirms that Russia is an unprincipled rogue state,” the article says.
According to the newspaper, the United States “will play a central role in any negotiations, whether they are formally proposed by Trump or not,” and the likely next Secretary of State Marco Rubio “will obviously be the obvious chairman,” but the head of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen may also claim this role.
At the same time, the article expresses skepticism about US President-elect Donald Trump’ s ability to quickly end the war in Ukraine. “Judging by reports from the front, there is widespread skepticism about Trump’s ability to end the war as quickly as he hopes. To do so without sending a signal to Putin that his aggression has worked, to avoid undermining NATO and to limit the likelihood of further attacks, Putin will have to make some concessions. There is an opportunity to do so, and President Zelensky has made it clear that there is room for negotiation,” the article says.
The article points out that since the election, Trump “has not provided any additional details about what the world can expect from his promised peace initiative.”
“We await the details of Trump’s initiative to put an end to this horror; unless, of course, it is delayed due to reservations expressed to him and his team by some NATO allies. In particular, they may raise concerns about how a settlement seen as favoring the Russians would affect international relations, effectively rewarding Putin for his aggression. Putin’s 25 years in power have shown that whenever he is allowed to get away with a crime, he then seeks to push the boundaries (literally and figuratively) even further. His apparent desire to reconquer parts of the former Soviet Union creates obvious potential targets for him,” the newspaper writes, mentioning the possibility of aggression against Lithuania or Poland to create a land corridor between Belarus and the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation.
The newspaper also emphasizes that the sanctions regime against Putin and his cronies “has been completely inadequate,” and mentions the purchase of Russian fish by Danish companies, as well as the so-called shadow fleet of the Russian Federation, which trades Russian oil and other energy carriers for foreign clients.
“By supporting the wealth of Russia’s most powerful and providing the financial means to buy ammunition, the companies involved in this trade keep Putin and his friends happy and allow the war to continue,” the article says.
