The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense has announced the transfer of detonation systems and thousands of rounds of ammunition for anti-tank grenade launchers to Ukraine.
“Lithuania continues to provide unwavering military support to Ukraine. Today, the Lithuanian army delivered detonation systems and thousands of rounds of ammunition for anti-tank grenade launchers. Our commitment to supporting Ukraine is not just solidarity, it is an investment in the security of Europe,” the ministry said in a statement on social media platform X.
According to Radio Svoboda, these are RISE-1 remote detonation systems and ammunition for the Swedish Carl Gustaf hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher.
AMMUNITION, anti-tank grenade, detonation systems, LITHUANIA
In 2024, ferrous scrap companies may increase their scrap procurement by 17-33% year-on-year to 1.5-1.7 million tons.
This is the forecast balance of scrap metal production and consumption in the country for 2024, according to the Ukrainian Association of Secondary Metals (UAVtormet).
According to the forecast, Ukraine will produce 6.8-7 million tons of steel in 2024 (6.228 million tons in 2023 and 6.263 million tons in 2022), and will procure 1.5-1.7 million tons of scrap metal (1,277.3 thousand tons in 2023 and 996,000 tons in 2022). tons, in 2022 – 996.7 thousand tons), steel companies will consume 1 million 277.3 thousand tons (in 2022 – 1 million 277.3 thousand tons), and steel companies will consume 1 million 277.3 thousand tons. tons. tons), steelmakers will consume 1.2-1.4 million tons of scrap (in 2023 – 1 million 34.7 thousand tons, in 2022 – 895.7 thousand tons), export 250-300 thousand tons of scrap (182.5 thousand tons and 53.6 thousand tons, respectively), increasing the export of strategic raw materials for steelmakers by 37-64% compared to last year.
The list of officially recognized professions in Ukraine has been updated by 42 positions, of which 29 are in the field of information technology, the Ministry of Economy said on Friday.
“We update the list of professions in accordance with the requirements of the time and the needs of the labor market. The most changes are in the IT sphere, where 29 new professions will appear, meeting the realities and demanded by employers. Also new professions are now in the medical sphere, financial sphere”, – the report quotes the words of Deputy Minister Tatyana Berezhnaya.
She also noted that professions were added, in which there was a need in connection with the war and overcoming its consequences, in particular, now there are specialists in mine clearance, in the medical sector – prosthetists-orthotists.
It is specified that the 29 new professions proposed by the Ministry of Digital Transformation included, among others: web resource administrator, mobile application analyst, artificial intelligence engineer, artificial intelligence developer, software architecture developer (IT), cloud architecture developer, electronic communications security specialist.
It is indicated that nine professions in IT sphere are brought in line with modern technologies, in particular, “computer databank analyst” is changed to “data analyst”, “operating and application software analyst” to “software analyst”, “computer software engineer” to “software engineer”, etc.
At the same time, nine obsolete names of professions were removed from the Classifier, for example, “application programmer”, “system programmer”, “computer application engineer”, “software and multimedia analyst”.
In addition, a number of positions that have recently become urgently needed have been added, in particular: prosthetist-orthhetist, operator of the 112 service (providing emergency assistance to the population through a single telephone number on the principle of “single window”), duty officer of the Civil Protection Operational Rescue Service, instructor in spatial orientation and mobility, demining specialist, auditor by type of activity, financial analyst, operator of shot blasting machines, as well as a master of installation, maintenance, repair and debugging, and also a master of the “single window”, “computer engineer”, “computer engineer”, “computer application engineer”, “computer application engineer”, “computer application engineer”, “software and multimedia analyst”, “software and multimedia analyst”, “computer application engineer”, “software and multimedia analyst”.
To date, 9,172 occupational job titles have been registered in the Classifier of Occupations. They (professions, positions, occupations) are systematized into professional groups, depending on the nature, complexity of the work performed, qualification (level of education, specialization), according to the hierarchy of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (International Standard Classification of ).
MINISTRY OF ECONOMY, professions in Ukraine, Татьяна Бережная
Ukrainian and foreign business, ready to invest more than EUR12 mln, will receive tax benefits, regulatory relief and support at the level of project implementation, Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said.
“Actually one of the key tasks in the economic sphere for this year is to increase foreign investment in Ukraine. For this purpose we are working with partners. For this purpose insurance of military risks has been launched. We constantly improve conditions for investment projects. Today we will adopt a decree improving the mechanism of state support for large investment projects,” Shmygal said at a government meeting on Friday.
According to him, Ukrainian and foreign business, which is ready to invest more than EUR12 million and create new jobs, will receive maximum support and special conditions, in particular, tax benefits, regulatory relief, and support at the level of project implementation.
“Today’s decree concerns a new approach to the preparation of a feasibility study of an investment project. We remove and simplify a number of provisions, including the necessity of economic analysis, the revision of the social assessment of projects, as well as we weaken the requirements of financial solvency of the applicant,” Prime Minister said.
Shmygal emphasized that all these decisions have a single goal – to launch more investment projects, which will create more jobs and strengthen communities and the economy.
FOREIGN BUSINESS, tax benefits, UKRAINIAN BUSINESS, Денис Шмигаль
A surplus of electricity was recorded in Ukraine’s energy system on Friday – its surplus was transferred to Poland’s energy system, the Energy Ministry said.
According to its information in a press release on Saturday, the surplus was transferred from 11.00 to 15.00 with a total supply of 1600 MWh.
As for the situation in the energy system today, two units of TPPs and one unit of CHPPs have gone into short-term repairs, at the same time, after the end of emergency works, a block and a building of thermal power plants have been connected to the grid.
There are 6 units of thermal generation in reserve, which will be activated in case of need, the Ministry of Energy noted.
For the current day, electricity imports are forecasted at 9,979 MWh, which is almost 4 times more than Friday’s figure. Exports to Moldova of 810 MWh are also expected. The last time exports were carried out in the first days of January.
The fight for the title of absolute world champion between British Tyson Fury and Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, scheduled for February 17, will not take place, Suspilne reports, citing Mike Coppinger, a journalist for the American international sports TV channel ESPN.
“On Friday, February 2, the Briton suffered a cut on his face during a sparring session. Fury was stitched up, due to which the WBC belt holder will not have time to prepare for the fight in February,” the statement said.
It is noted that this is the second time the fight has been postponed.
