Passenger flow through western border of Ukraine in may 2023, thousand
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Ukraine within the framework of the meeting Ukraine – USA – European Commission – Romania – Moldova in Romanian Galati identified among the priority areas of work to increase Ukrainian exports the realization of the potential of the Danube and checkpoints on the border with Romania, said Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov.
“Today in Romanian Galati within the framework of the meeting Ukraine – USA – European Commission – Romania – Moldova worked on ways to increase Ukrainian exports. The Romanian part of the Danube in conditions of limited navigation is important for the reorientation of exports,” he wrote in Facebook.
According to him, the key areas of work are the acceleration of the passage of ships through the channels, increasing the capacity of the Sulina channel and the organization of additional places for the raid transshipment of ships near the Romanian port of Constanta.
Deputy Prime Minister noted that for the realization of these plans investments are needed. To attract them, work with European partners is underway, in particular, on the inclusion of the Ukrainian part of the Danube in the maps of the Trans-European Network of Inland Navigation Routes (TEN-T).
“This is one of the important conditions for the full-fledged operation of business on the Ukrainian Danube transportation market,” he stressed.
Kubrakov added that work is also underway with the Romanian side on the full-fledged launch of freight transportation at the road checkpoints on the border with Romania “Krasnoyilsk – Vicovu de Sus” and “Diakivtsi – Rakovets”. There are plans to increase the capacity of “Porubnoye – Siret” by at least 20% and to open two more new checkpoints, the report said.
In the railway transportation direction, active work is being carried out both in the Romanian and Moldovan directions, the deputy prime minister said. He recalled the resumption of the passenger trains’ movement on the border with Romania on the Rakhiv-Delovoye-Valia-Visheului section, as well as the works on the resumption of the passenger traffic at the Teresva border crossing point.
As it was reported at the meeting of the Exporters’ Office at UZ, a number of measures are also planned to increase the volume of cargo transshipment in the direction of the port “Izmail”. In particular, the reconstruction of dead-end tracks No. 8 and No. 9 at the station “Izmail” is planned by the end of the year. It is envisaged that UZ will perform the works at the expense of the investor. In 2024 it is planned to build an additional extraction track parallel to the existing No. 13 in the park “Izmail-Portovyi”. In addition, it is planned to build two marshalling tracks between tracks #11 and #15. There are plans to electrify the Artsiz-Izmail line with a length of 202 km.
“All our actions are aimed at achieving one goal – to provide as many opportunities as possible for Ukrainian exporters,” Kubrakov emphasized.
Deputy Prime Minister expressed gratitude to US sanctions coordinator Jim O’Brien, US Ambassador to Ukraine Brigitte Brink, European Commission Director General for Transport Magda Kopczynska, Romanian Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Sorin Grindian and Moldovan Minister of Agro-politics Vladimir Balea for their support.
He also recalled that recent Russian attacks on Ukraine’s port infrastructure destroyed more than 200,000 tons of grain.
74.1% of Ukrainians believe that men between the ages of 16 and 25 should be allowed to study abroad without hindrance, according to a survey conducted by the Ilk Kucheriv Foundation for Democratic Initiatives and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.
In particular, when asked whether respondents agree or disagree with the statement that young men aged 16 to 25 should be freely released abroad to study in foreign secondary, vocational and higher educational institutions, 52.2% said they fully agree, 21.9% – mostly agree, 7.7% – mostly disagree, 10.7% – do not agree at all, and 7.5% found it difficult to answer.
The all-Ukrainian poll was conducted in the period from July 3 to July 17, 2023. A total of 2011 respondents aged 18 and older were interviewed by face-to-face method in the Ukrainian-controlled territories of Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattya, Zaporizhzhya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovograd, Lviv, Mykolayiv, Odessa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi regions and in Kyiv. The statistical error of the sample does not exceed 2.8%.
The total economic damage from wildfires in Hawaii may amount from $8 billion to $10 billion, Market Watch reports with reference to preliminary estimates of AccuWeather.
These estimates include both insured and uninsured losses, the company notes.
The fires not only directly affect the region’s residents, their real estate and businesses, but will also have a negative impact on tourism in the future, AccuWeather said in its report.
The company estimates $3 billion to $5 billion in damage from the July floods in the northeastern United States.
Key insurers in Hawaii include State Farm Insurance, Berkshire Hathaway, Tokio Marine, USAA and Allstate Corp. notes Jefferies.
According to the latest figures, 55 people have died as a result of the wildfires in Hawaii.
The Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy named after V.P.Filatov of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine (Odessa) for six months of 2023 conducted more than 90 thousand consultations in the consultative polyclinic, the number of patients treated in the hospital is approaching to the indicators of pre-war and pre-Cold War times and amounts to 6666 patients.
Sergey Katsan, deputy director of the Institute for scientific and medical work, told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency that among the recent trends, in particular, are the consequences of an increase in the number of patients who come to the clinic “with far advanced stages of eye diseases, with complications, which further leads to longer treatment periods, inability to overcome the disease with therapeutic methods, the emergence of the need for surgical treatment.”
“First of all it concerns patients with inflammatory diseases of the organ of vision, ophthalmo-oncology. The number of patients of the department of microsurgical treatment of pediatric eye diseases has also increased,” he said.
At the same time, Katsan noted that “with the beginning of hostilities significantly increased the number of patients with traumatic lesions, both as a result of enemy actions, and with domestic injuries (especially, this applies to children)”.
In addition, according to Katsan, the number of cataract and glaucoma patients has increased compared to pre-war and pre-Cold War figures.
The Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy named after V.P. Filatov of the National Academy of Sciences of Russia. V.P. Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of NAMNU was founded in 1936. It is a leading scientific and medical institution and a national center of scientific research in the field of ophthalmology. On the basis of the Institute there are four national centers, which cover the most common ophthalmic pathologies: Ukrainian Ophthalmotraumatology Center, Center of Pediatric Ophthalmopathology, Center of Ophthalmic Oncology, Eye Burn Center.
The Institute’s clinic is an ophthalmology center where all types of diagnostics and treatment of eye diseases with the use of innovative technologies are carried out.
Freight transportation by rail, mln tons
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