Raiffeisen Bank (Kyiv) has opened its first underground branches in Kharkiv and Dnipro, the bank’s telegram channel reported on Friday.
As specified, the underground branches will operate on the basis of existing ones and will serve customers in case of an air alert. Customer service is already available through a separate entrance leading to the underground premises.
“Underground workplaces allow us to ensure continuity of customer service even in the event of air raids. This is especially important in cities that are subject to constant shelling, which is why branches are forced to stop working on the surface for a rather long time,” Artem Nidzelsky, Retail Business Director of the center of the bank’s southeastern region, said in a statement.
According to him, the continuous operation of the branches allows to support local businesses and provide access to financial services. This, in turn, helps to minimize economic losses for entrepreneurs and the population.
“It is also extremely important that the new initiative creates safer working conditions for employees, allowing them to work more confidently and with less stress,” emphasized Nizelsky.
Underground branches provide all banking services as well as traditional branches, including account opening, deposits, lending, customer consultations and cash payments.
Raiffeisen Bank explained that the first underground bank branches appeared in cities located near the hostilities and constantly under fire. The number and duration of air raids in these cities is increased, customers have limited access to offline services and frequent problems with stable communication.
This step is expected to help maintain economic stability in the frontline regions, preserve customer confidence and provide a sense of stability and security when using banking services, which is especially important in wartime.
In the future, the bank plans to open separate underground branches in Kharkiv, Dnipro and other frontline cities.
France has sent 41 power generators to Kharkiv and Chernihiv, whose energy infrastructure has been severely damaged by Russian strikes, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports.
“France supports the Ukrainian people. We have sent 41 power generators to Kharkiv and Chernihiv, whose energy infrastructure has been severely damaged by Russian strikes,” the Ministry said in a statement on social media site X.
The construction of the first underground school in Kharkiv has been completed and will be open to students by the end of this school year, the press service of the Kharkiv City Council reports, citing Mayor Igor Terekhov.
“The building is built to the highest safety standards, has 20 classrooms and is designed to accommodate 900 students in two shifts. Enrollment for the next school year is almost complete. Already this year, 600 children will sit down at their desks,” Terekhov wrote on the social network X on Tuesday.
According to him, similar schools are planned to be built in different parts of the city. “We plan to continue building similar schools in other parts of the city to ensure that all our children have equal access to quality and, most importantly, safe education,” Terekhov said.
As of 10:00 a.m. on December 19, Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest telecom operator, restored high-speed mobile internet in the Kyiv subway, and earlier mobile internet was restored in the Kharkiv subway, the company’s press service said on Tuesday.
“The My Kyivstar information system has been restored, where subscribers can view their account balances. Kyivstar’s telecom network has almost entered the stabilization period,” the statement said.
On the territory controlled by Ukraine, 99% of the base stations are in working order, and all basic services are available to customers: communication and mobile Internet services, SMS, international voice roaming services, etc., the mobile operator’s press service said.
In addition, Kyivstar stores have restored most services.
It is noted that Kyivstar continues to improve the Home Internet service in Kyiv and a number of other places, and also plans to gradually remove restrictions on mobile Internet speeds in the near future.
“Kyivstar specialists are working on the launch of high-speed mobile Internet in roaming and plan to launch this service for Ukrainian subscribers in Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and a number of other countries in the near future,” the company said in a statement.
To stabilize the services, the company has engaged all available technical staff, as well as international partners from Sweden, Ireland, the United States, China, Finland and other countries, the press service said.
Earlier it was reported that Kyivstar expects to achieve full stabilization in the provision of services by the end of the week.
After a failure in the early morning hours of December 12 caused by a large-scale cyberattack, Kyivstar began restoring voice services in the evening of December 13, the company’s mobile Internet service started working again in some regions a day later, and the company announced its full restoration in the country on the evening of December 15.
On December 17, Kivestar resumed providing voice services, including roaming, mobile data, Home Internet, virtual private network (VPN) services and started restoring access to M2M (Machine-to-Machine) services for business customers. Kyivstar restored access to SMS services, including international roaming, and M2M services on 18 December.
Kharkiv-based aircraft manufacturer FED JSC completed January-September 2023 with net income of UAH 907 million, up 87.1% compared to the same period in 2022.
According to the company’s interim financial statements published in the NSSMC’s information disclosure system, its net profit for the period increased 2.8 times to UAH 272.5 million.
From operating activities, FED JSC received UAH 334.6 million in profit, which is 2.8 times more, and gross profit increased almost 2.3 times to UAH 432.3 million.
As reported, in January-June 2023, the company increased its net profit by 12.6 times compared to the first half of 2022, to UAH 249.43 million, while net income almost tripled to UAH 674.89 million.
Thus, in the third quarter of this year, the net profit of FED JSC amounted to UAH 23 million, which is 70.3% less than in July-September 2022, with a 9.1% drop in net income to UAH 232.1 million.
FED JSC is one of the leading enterprises in Ukraine, specializing in the development, production, maintenance and repair of aviation, space and general engineering units.
In 2022, the company reported a 2.7-fold decrease in net profit compared to 2021, down to UAH 146.77 million. Net income decreased by 2.3 times to UAH 570.9 million.
At the beginning of 2022, the company employed more than 1 thousand people.
According to the National Securities and Stock Market Commission, more than 98.2% of FED shares are owned by the company’s CEO Viktor Popov.
KP “Kharkiv Metro” on August 16 announced a tender for the purchase of services of compulsory insurance of civil liability of owners of land vehicles (OSAGO), according to the system of electronic public procurement Prozorro.
The expected cost is UAH 137,175 thousand.
Documents for participation are accepted until August 24, 2023.
As reported, the winner of a similar tender a year earlier was IC Ukrainian Fire Insurance Company.
