PrivatBank, the largest on the market, confirmed disruptions and delays in the work of the bank’s services, in particular Privat24, ATM networks and card payments through merchant terminals.
“All IT specialists involved are working to restore stable work as soon as possible,” the financial institution said in a telegram message.
The bank thanked customers for their understanding and patience.
As stated by the National Bank in a report for 2022, the leaders in Ukraine on the issue of payment cards are state-owned PrivatBank and Oschadbank – respectively 43.8% and 15.4%, as well as Universal Bank (mono) – 13.2%.
The largest number of payment terminals on the market also belongs to PrivatBank – 60.4%, Oschadbank – 19.6% and Raiffeisen Bank – 7.6%.
Animal protection organizations of Ukraine urge not to leave animals behind during evacuation because of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP and advise where to go and how to help.
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam caused flooding of up to 80 settlements in the South of Ukraine. People are urgently evacuated. Animal protection organizations sound the alarm because, during the evacuation, people can forget or leave their pets behind. In addition, many homeless animals and foster shelters remain in the risk zone.
The Save Pets of Ukraine social initiative from Kormotech has already provided 1,500 kg of cat and dog food, treats, 37 cages, seven carriers, collars, leashes, and 125 evacuation backpacks for these animals. Public organizations and volunteers are already going to the Kherson region to save four-legged animals.
Where to turn for help
The Save Pets of Ukraine initiative has collected the contacts of organizations that accept applications from residents of the Kherson Region regarding the evacuation of animals:
Charitable Fund “Ukraine. United in diversity”
NGO “Petro and Mazepa” +380932230214
BO “12 guards” +380638631512
The All-Ukrainian Center for Assistance to Homeless Animals Patron Pets Center in Kyiv is ready to accept animals evacuated from the Kherson region.
How to help
Those wishing to support animals affected by flooding in the Kherson region can join the initiatives of animal protection organizations:
The Save Pets of Ukraine initiative accepts applications from organizations traveling to the Kherson region for evacuation to provide them with everything they need and also collects inquiries about providing shelter to animals evacuated from the Kherson region in shelters of Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, and Odesa regions. The organization publishes current news on its social networks and calls on everyone who cares to help save animals from flooded areas:
https://www.facebook.com/savepetsofua
Almost 55 thousand hectares of forests may be flooded with water in the Kherson region as a result of the explosion of the Kakhovka hydropower plant by Russian troops, of which 47 thousand hectares are occupied territories, said the director of the state enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” Yuri Bolokhovets.
“It is quite difficult to assess the damage caused to forestry now, because we do not have access to the occupied territories. However, it is possible to predict the situation,” he wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.
Bolokhovets noted that the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region is planted with pine forests. The fertile layer of forests and young plantings could have already been literally swept away by the flow of water.
Pine grows well where it is dry, the expert explains. Stagnant water in waterlogged places provokes the development of root rot and changes the acidity of the soil. It can kill trees if the water stagnates for up to 20 days, as it is predicted. Trees under 10 years of age are particularly endangered, the report says.
Of particular concern to the head of the state enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” are wild animals, which found themselves in flooded areas. “If there is still hope for the preservation of plants in the forest, the animals are actually doomed. Perhaps some may be able to cling to an island of land, but the vast majority will simply be carried by the current into the open sea. These are deer, roe deer, wild boar. Lizards, snakes, hares, hedgehogs have no chance”, Bolokhovets notes.
He also pointed out that the threat of flooding is close to Kynburne Spit, most of which is below sea level. According to him, the isthmus at the end of the bay outside the Dnieper delta is likely to be almost completely flooded, and this could happen in 50 hours after the breach of the dam.
“The regional landscape park “Kinburn Spit”, which has been suffering from fires as a result of shelling for more than a year, may now be partially under water,” said Bolokhovets.
It is noted that due to the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station into the Dnieper about 150 tons of machine grease, the precipitation of which on plants leads to irreversible consequences in the process of photosynthesis.
“Such actions of a terrorist country are ecocide, for which they will have to answer”, – summarized the head of the state enterprise “Forests of Ukraine”.
The peak of water spill from the Kakhovka reservoir is expected by the morning of June 7, reported PJSC “Ukrhydroenergo” with reference to the general director of the company Igor Sirota on Tuesday.
“Further, there will be a stabilization of the water level. In 4-5 days the water will begin to recede,” said the head of Ukrhydroenergo.
On Tuesday morning, the Ukrhydrometeocenter warned that on the Dnieper River below the town of Novaya Kakhovka, as a result of the explosion of the Kakhovka hydropower plant, intense rise in water levels with flooding of riverbed areas and lowered parts in Kherson, in Kherson, Berislavsk, Skadovsky districts of Kherson region is expected. III level of danger – red.
As reported, at 02:50 on June 6, Russian troops carried out an internal explosion of structures at the occupied Kakhovska HPP, which led to the flooding of a number of settlements in the Kherson region. As of 11:00 a.m., 16 gates of the plant, the HPP building and the earth dam insert between the HPP building and the sluice and admin building were destroyed.
At the same time, the explosion of the HPP did not directly affect the situation in the Ukrainian energy system. There are no threats to the stability of power supply. The generated electricity is sufficient to cover the needs of consumers.
The destruction of the hydropower plant is considered a violation of the Geneva Convention.
Source: Interfax-Ukraine
Number of unemployed people registered in public employment service as of 01.05.2023 (thush people)
Source: Open4Business.com.ua and experts.news
The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) has rescheduled the second privatization auction of Belgorod-Dnistrovskyi Sea Commercial Port (BSCP), setting it for June 14, 2023.
According to the announcement on the SPF website, the starting price of the object was almost halved – down to $92.46 million (excluding VAT). The auction will be held in the ProZorro.Selling system. The guarantee fee is 18.49 mln UAH.
As reported, a repeated auction for the sale of Belgorod-Dnistrovsky ICC was scheduled for June 6. The announced starting price was UAH 184.92 million (excluding VAT). The guarantee fee amounted to UAH 36.98 million.
Earlier it was also reported that the winner of the previous auction for the sale of “Belgorod-Dnistrovskiy MPP”, which was held on March 13, LLC “Ukrdoninvest” businessman Vitaly Kropachev refused to buy the port at the stage of coordinating the terms of the sales contract with the regional office of the State Property Fund in the Odessa and Nikolaev regions. The company specified that the sale price of the port at an auction, which it won was 264.12 mln hryvnia (including VAT). It was also reported that Ukrdoninvest did not ask for the refund of the guarantee fee of 18.76 million UAH.
The State Property Fund reported that it will hold the privatization auction for Belgorod-Dnistrovskiy ICC again, because the auction in which it was sold to Ukrtdoninvest failed: the auction winner did not pay for the object, the press service of the Fund reported.
The first auction for the sale of the port, scheduled for March 3, with a starting price of 187.57 million UAH, was not held.
The SPF stated earlier that Belgorod-Dnistrovsky port, founded in 1971, is unprofitable, however, since 2022, the enterprise “plays an important role in ensuring the world food security as a logistical center for the ports on the Danube”. In the first quarter of 2023 the total income of the port was 7.391 million hryvnias. At the same time the loss for this period was 4.45 mln UAH. As of March 31, 2023, the amount of overdue accounts payable was 118.7 million UAH, including wage arrears of 11.5 million UAH. The total debt on wages and payments to the budget is 96.37 million UAH, including penalties of 1.7 million UAH.
In 2022 Belgorod-Dnistrovsky ICC has made 63 thousand UAH of profit against losses of 28.5 million UAH in 2021 and 25.2 million UAH in 2020.
The port provides loading and unloading services for the main range of cargo: timber cargo, mineral fertilizers, iron ore pellets, metal products. It works with timber and grain cargoes bound for export.
