Prometey Group has continued cooperation with Vostok Bank (Kyiv) and MTB Bank (Odesa), which have each allocated UAH 60 million to replenish working capital and implement targeted programs of the group’s production companies, the group’s press service said.
“Since the beginning of the war, these banks were the first to provide financial support to Ukrainian agricultural producers, including our group. We highly appreciate the trust placed in us in the face of a full-scale invasion and economic uncertainty that the agricultural sector faced in February 2022. The new financing will be a good help for our farmers during the harvest season,” Natalia Dudnikova, Deputy Head of Corporate Finance at Prometey, commented on cooperation with banks, as quoted by the press service.
Prometey Group provides storage, processing and logistics services for agricultural crops. Prior to the Russian aggression, it owned 34 elevators in Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Odesa, Kherson, and Dnipro regions.
By the end of 2021, the group planned to generate $45 million in EBITDA, while in 2020 this figure reached $32.6 million, and in 2019 – $30.5 million.
“In 2023, Prometey plans to increase its land bank from 20 thousand hectares to 50 thousand hectares, and in the long term, to increase it to 100 thousand hectares.
The Cabinet of Ministers at a meeting on Tuesday established unified rules for the functioning of the Register of artesian wells to ensure open access to information about them and minimize corruption risks, government representative in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnychuk said in Telegram.
The corresponding changes will be made to the Cabinet of Ministers’ resolution N963 “On approval of the Procedure for state registration of artesian wells, equipping them with means of measuring the volume of extracted groundwater”.
It is noted that the document defines the powers of the Cabinet of Ministers to develop the procedure for maintaining the state register of artesian wells, periodicity of submission and/or updating of data of the State Register of artesian wells, as well as legally fixes the concept of “artesian well”.
At the same time, according to the unified procedure of data submission to the State Register of artesian wells defined by the document, all information about them is entered through the electronic cabinet of the subsoil user, which is accessed on the State Geological Web Portal.
“The government continues its consistent policy in the direction of digitalization of the subsoil use sphere. With this decision, we create transparent access of the public and business to artesian well data and minimize corruption risks. The water user will be able to enter data about the well through the E-cabinet of the subsoil user without contact and intervention of an official,” emphasized the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets, who is quoted by the press service of the agency in its message in Telegram.
The Ministry of Natural Resources notes that the proposed changes will make it possible to promptly respond to wartime challenges, will help in overcoming the consequences of the Russian terrorist attack on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant and will make it possible to quickly provide the population with drinking water.
PJSC “National Energy Company (NEC) “Ukrenergo” on July 6 announced the intention to conclude with the insurance group “TAS” for voluntary health insurance services for 8.522 thousand people.
As reported in the system of electronic public procurement Prozorro, the expected cost of the purchase of services is 46.678 million UAH, the price offer of the company – 38.941 million UAH.
The tender was also attended by IC ROM Ukraine with a price offer of UAH 38.626m, VUSO – UAH 44.989mn, Unica – UAH 45.553mn.
“Ukrenergo unites eight regional power systems: Dnipro, Donbas, Western, Crimean, Southern, South-Western, Northern and Central.
“Ukrenergo” operates backbone and interstate power transmission lines, as well as performs centralized dispatching of the country’s united power system. NEC is a state-owned enterprise subordinated to the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine.
SG TAS was registered in 1998. It is a universal company offering its clients more than 80 types of insurance products on various types of voluntary and compulsory insurance. It has an extensive regional network of 28 regional directorates and branches.
On Thursday, July 13, in the western, Vinnitsa, Zhytomyr regions, rain with thunderstorms, in the afternoon in some areas hail and squalls 15-20 m / s, in Transcarpathia and Prykarpattya significant rains, in the rest of the territory without precipitation, reports Ukrhydrometcenter.
The wind is south-western with a transition in the west and north of Ukraine to north-western, 7-12 m/s.
The temperature at night is 12-17°, in the southern part up to 20°, during the day 26-31°, in Odessa region up to 35°, in the western and eastern regions 22-27°.
In Kiev on Thursday without precipitation. The wind is southwesterly with a transition to northwesterly, 7-12 m/s. The temperature at night 15-17°, during the day about 30°.
According to the Central Geophysical Observatory named after. Borys Sreznevsky in Kiev on July 13, the highest daytime temperature was 34.1° in 1936, the lowest nighttime temperature was 8.2° in 1904.
On Friday, July 14, in Ukraine, except for western and most northern regions, expect short-term rains and thunderstorms, in some areas hail and squalls of 15-20 m/sec.
The wind is predominantly north-western, 7-12 m/s. The temperature at night 15-20°, in the southern part up to 23°, during the day 22-27°, in the south 30-32°.
Short rains and thunderstorms are forecast in Kiev on Friday. The wind is northwest, 7-12 m/s. The temperature at night is 18-20°, during the day 24-26°.
Enterprises for operations with ferrous scrap in January-June of this year reduced scrap metal procurement by 25.2% compared to the same period last year – up to 531 thousand tons.
As reported in the operational information of the Ukrainian Association of Secondary Metals (“UAVtormet”) on Wednesday, the export of scrap metal for the period amounted to 92 thousand tons compared to 28.7 thousand tons in January-June-2022 (growth in 3.2 times). At the same time, import of scrap amounted to 0.5 thousand tons, while in the first six months of last year it amounted to 1.6 thousand tons.
Scrap deliveries to the country’s steel enterprises in January-June 2023 decreased by 37.2% compared to January-June 2022 – to 413.8 thousand tons from 659.4 thousand tons.
As of July 1, 2023, the level of scrap metal stocks at Ukrainian metal enterprises was estimated at 15-20 thousand tons.
As reported, Ukraine in 2022 reduced scrap procurement by 75.9% compared to 2021 – to 996.7 thousand tons from 4.136 million tons. Scrap metal exports last year amounted to 53.6 thousand tons, which is 11.5 times less compared to the previous year (615.7 thousand tons). At the same time, scrap imports amounted to 1.8 thousand tons (23 thousand tons in 2021).
Scrap deliveries to the country’s metal enterprises in 2022 decreased by 73% compared to 2021 – to 895.7 thousand tons from 3 million 323.4 thousand tons.
“UAVtormet” forecasts in 2023 the procurement of ferrous scrap in the amount of 1.2-1.25 million tons. In addition, scrap deliveries to the country’s metal enterprises are forecast to amount to 950-1000 thousand tons. Export of scrap metal is expected to amount to 180-200 thousand tons, import – 0.2-0.5 thousand tons. Steel output is expected to be 4.8-5.2 million tons.
During the year of operation from July 2022 to June 2023, 106 thousand sessions were recorded in the Dobrobut mobile application (the number of times the application was used by one client).
Dobrobut told Interfax-Ukraine that 67 thousand sessions were recorded on the iOS system and 39 thousand on the Android system.
On average, the system records 7,500 appointments for services through the app per month, with the most popular service being an appointment for a doctor’s consultation.
On average, a client views 10 pages on iOS or six pages on Android in one session.
In total, 40% of the app’s sessions were used for making an appointment and paying for services, 30% for viewing documents (doctor’s report, test results, etc.), and 30% for searching for a doctor or viewing a doctor’s profile.
Dobrobut Medical Network launched its mobile application in 2016.
The application allows access to digital medical services on the phone: making an appointment with a doctor at any Dobrobut medical center, viewing consulting opinions, research results, paying for services, making an appointment for online doctor’s explanations, and much more.
The app allows you to link medical records of children and other family members to your profile after verification. With the ability to open multiple profiles, you can collect the medical records of the entire family in one place, as well as make appointments and pay for treatment from one account.
The Documents section stores the doctor’s notes made after each visit, consultative conclusions, test results, research, and other medical documents. It is also possible to upload additional user documents, which will be stored in the same section.
“Dobrobut is one of the largest private healthcare networks in Ukraine. The company’s portfolio includes 17 medical centers in Kyiv and Kyiv region, an emergency service, dentistry, and pharmacies. The medical centers of the network provide services for children and adults in more than 75 medical areas. Every year, Dobrobut specialists perform more than 7,000 surgeries. The network employs 2,700 people.
Thanks to cooperation with international charities such as Direct Relief International, Children of War Foundation, International Medical Corps and University of Miami Global Institute, as well as the work of the Dobrobut Foundation, the network’s clinics continued to operate even during the hostilities and provided a significant part of medical services free of charge for months. Since the first days of the war, the Dobrobut Medical and Diagnostic Center in Kyiv has been providing emergency medical care to Ukraine’s defenders and people wounded in the fighting 24/7 free of charge. Thanks to the activities of the charitable foundations Direct Relief International and Dobrobut Foundation, the Dobrobut Medical and Diagnostic Center provides free medical care to wounded soldiers and people in difficult situations due to the hostilities.
