In November, amid intensified hostile attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure, DTEK Grids’ distribution system operators managed to restore electricity to almost 1 million Ukrainian families whose homes were cut off due to shelling in Odesa, Dnipro, Donetsk and Kyiv regions.
“The enemy intensified shelling of the country’s energy infrastructure in November. Lines and equipment were destroyed by missiles or drones. Most of all, in Odesa region, which suffered devastating attacks,” the company said in a press release on Monday.
Last month, power engineers managed to restore electricity to the homes of 701.7 thousand families in Odesa region.
Over the same period, DTEK Grids restored electricity to 4.8 thousand families in Kyiv region whose homes were cut off as a result of another hostile attack. In November, enemy shelling also damaged power grids and equipment in the capital, and power engineers promptly restored power to 1.1 thousand homes of de-energized families.
“In the regions close to the hostilities, the power system also suffered from enemy artillery shelling and air strikes. In the last month of autumn, the enemy continued to attack Dnipropetrovska oblast, especially the south of the region,” the press release explains.
Over the past month, power engineers in Dnipropetrovs’k region have managed to restore electricity supply to 192.1 thousand families.
In Donetsk Oblast, which remains the scene of the most intense fighting, power engineers managed to restore electricity to 75.5 thousand households in November. The company’s specialists continue to restore power grids in the frontline region every day, as soon as the security situation and the military allow.
“Since the beginning of the full-scale war, we have already restored electricity to 16.1 million families in Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Donetsk and the capital,” said Alina Bondarenko, CEO of DTEK Grids.
“DTEK Grids develops the electricity distribution and grid operation business in Kyiv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Donetsk and Odesa regions. The company’s DSOs serve 5.5 million households and 158 thousand enterprises.
Estimated number of population in regions of Ukraine based on number of active mobile sim cards (mln)
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Delta-Lotsman branch of the state enterprise Administration of Sea Ports of Ukraine announced a tender for voluntary insurance of employees against accidents on December 3, according to the electronic public procurement system Prozorro. As reported, the expected cost of services is UAH 4.333 million. Tender offers are accepted until December 11.
SE “Delta-Lotsman” was established by order of the Ministry of Transport of Ukraine in 1998 in order to improve the conditions for ensuring safety of navigation, protection of human life at sea and the environment, in the territorial sea of Ukraine in accordance with the requirements of international agreements and conventions, as well as to streamline the structure of marine pilot services in the north-western part of the Black Sea.
IC “Express Insurance” (Kiev) in January-October 2024 collected insurance premiums in the amount of UAH 759,1 mln, which is by 31,3% more than the same period of 2023.
According to the insurer’s website, twice as many contracts were concluded during this period.
Premiums on CASCO amounted to UAH 593,8 mln (+18,6% to 10 months-2023), on MTPL -145 mln UAH (2,3 times more), VHI -9,8 mln UAH (+9,1%). On other types of insurance UAH 20,3 mln (+36,8%).
The company also reports that in October 2024 attracted UAH 82.7 mln of premiums, which is 20.2% more than in October last year. Including premiums on CASCO amounted to UAH 63,1 mln (+8,6%), on MTPL – UAH 17,5 mln (+95,5%).
As reported, IC “Express Insurance” in January-October 2024 made payments in the amount of UAH 427,2 mln, which is by 57,5%, or by UAH 155,9 mln more than in the same period of 2023.
Including payments under CASCO amounted to UAH 357.5 mln (+51.1%), under CMTPL insurance – UAH 58.5 mln (2.3 times more), payments under other insurance contracts – UAH 11.2 mln (+16.7%).
At the same time, the company reports that in October-2024 payments to clients amounted to UAH 48 mln (+33.7%) more than in October-2023. In particular, the company paid UAH 38.4mn (+22.4%) under hull insurance contracts, and UAH 8.7mn (+2.5 times) under CMTPL insurance contracts.
Express Insurance was founded in 2008 and is a part of UkrAVTO group of companies. The company specializes in automobile insurance. Stable high speed of events settlement in IC is provided by optimal interaction with partner service stations.
Since April, 2012 IC Express Insurance has been an associated member of the Motor Transport Insurance Bureau of Ukraine.
NAEK Energoatom and Kyivzelenstroy in October became the biggest violators of the localization law, having purchased a total of more than UAH 20 million worth of machine-building goods from foreign manufacturers, Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Economic Development Dmytro Kisilevskyy said with reference to the monitoring of public procurement by the analytical center CMD Ukraine.
“It is impossible not to note the cynicism with which the heads of some state enterprises steal from the Ukrainian state. “Energoatom” directly in the title of the tender as the subject of purchase specifies the Turkish international bus ”AR-Temsa Prestij SX or equivalent.” Can you imagine that, for example, the mayor’s office of Istanbul indicated “Etalon bus of Chernihiv automobile plant or equivalent” as the subject of purchase in its tender?” – wondered the MP on his Facebook page.
He added that “Kyivzelenstroy” also specified a Turkish backhoe loader TLB 870 Mecalak or equivalent as the subject of the purchase.
Kisilevskyy reminded that Ukrainian manufacturers can 100% meet the needs of Ukrainian state institutions and communities, in particular, in buses or excavators.
The parliamentarian once again emphasized that he was sending information about the eight purchases with the most gross violations to the Ministry of Economy and the State Audit Service for response.
Among the eight biggest violators of the localization legislation are the State Enterprise “Ukraine”, which purchased a Turkish bus for UAH 7.15 million, a village council in Dnipropetrovsk region, which bought a Chinese bus JAC Sunray for UAH 1.85 million, as well as other local companies with purchases of a Turkish diesel generator for UAH 1.09 million and a Chinese tractor for UAH 0.62 million.
According to the monitoring data CMD Ukraine, cited by the MP, in October in “Prozorro” published information about 810 purchases of engineering goods worth 10 billion UAH, which are subject to the requirement of localization, with violation of the requirement revealed in 151 tenders (18.6%).
The legislation on localization in 2024 requires in public procurement of machine-building products to contain at least 20% of the component produced in Ukraine. At the same time, new rules for keeping the Register of localized goods have been in force since July 2.
The number of foreign tourists who visited Spain in October increased by 9.5% year-on-year to 8.96 million people, according to the national statistics office INE.
This is a record figure for October in the entire history of observations, that is, since 1995.
Most of the tourists came from the UK last month – 1.79 million (+4.8% compared to October 2023), followed by Germany (1.3 million, +14% yoy), and France (1.16 million, +16.7% yoy).
The number of visitors from other European countries increased by 14.7% to 817.28 thousand people.
In October, 7.49 million tourists arrived in Spain by air (+7.8% yoy), 1.19 million by road (+17.7%), 265.48 thousand by water (+30.7%), and 27.18 thousand by rail (-2.5%).
Catalonia received the largest number of tourists (20.4% of the total), followed by the Balearic Islands (17.8%) and Andalusia (15.3%).
Total expenditures by visitors to the country increased by 15.5% year-on-year to 11.9 billion euros, or an average of 1,327 thousand euros per person. Tourism accounts for 12-13% of Spanish GDP.
In January-October, tourist arrivals to Spain increased by 10.8% to approximately 82.9 million people.
