An inclusive driving school has started operating in the village of Vita-Poshtova on the basis of the National Academy of Internal Affairs (Educational and Research Institute No. 1), the Kyiv City State Administration reports.
According to a statement on the KCSA website, “at the driving school, people with disabilities can receive services to study theory and gain practical driving skills; pass theoretical and practical exams, and then get a driver’s license.”
If necessary, people can also retrain or acquire the skills to drive a manual car.
In addition, both individual and mixed group training is possible, and it is also possible to learn theory online. The driving school’s curricula are adapted to the needs of people with disabilities, and training and exams will be held in inclusive facilities.
In total, 11 weeks are allocated for training, including 4 weeks of theory and 7 weeks of practice. Up to 30 people study in one group.
To enroll in a driving school, you must pass a medical and social commission and receive a certificate of the cause and group of disability, as well as undergo a medical examination and receive a certificate of fitness to drive.
Next, you need to choose a driving school and submit the required package of documents to the educational institution. This includes an application addressed to the director of the driving school, a copy of the passport of a citizen of Ukraine or an identity document confirming his or her citizenship or special status, a copy of one of the documents provided for by the Tax Code of Ukraine with data on the registration number of the taxpayer’s account card or a notice of refusal to accept it, a medical certificate and a 3.5 x 4.5 cm color photograph.
Driving schools for people with disabilities operate in Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Lviv and Dnipro regions.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has fully implemented the 112 service in Kyiv – a single number for all emergencies, the ministry reports.
“The Interior Ministry has fully implemented the 112 service in Kyiv, a single number for all emergencies. The 112 communication center is already processing incoming information and covering the capital,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement on its Telegram channel on Friday.
Reportedly, operators receive calls from citizens. The requests are then forwarded to the necessary units, which respond accordingly. “It is important that operators who speak sign language can communicate with applicants via video call. To do this, you need to send an SMS to 112 and wait for a link to the connection,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
“We promised to launch the service in early July, and we kept our word. Our next steps are to scale 112 first in all cities with a population of over one million, and then to the entire territory of the state,” the statement emphasizes.
Traffic on the two newly constructed exits of the Darnytsia Bridge on the left bank of the Dnipro River towards the Paton Bridge and Osokorky is now open, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov said on Thursday.
“With the opening of the Darnytsia bridge, our fight against long-term construction projects and emergency bridges is not over. Our goal is to see the real state of the bridges and develop concrete solutions to protect the transport infrastructure and maintain its proper condition,” Kubrakov wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday.
According to him, the opening of the exits will allow for a direct connection between the residential areas of Osokorky and Pozniaky and the Kyiv City Express platform and Bereznyaki.
It is specified that the bridge, which is on the balance sheet of Ukrzaliznytsia JSC, was completed at public expense.
As reported, construction on the Darnytskyi Bridge was restarted in 2021. Due to the full-scale invasion in March-April last year, the work was suspended, but resumed in May 2022.
The Darnytsia Bridge has 6 lanes and a capacity of 35 thousand vehicles per day.
On Sunday, June 25, rains are expected in Ukraine, with heavy rains in some southern and southeastern regions, with hail and wind gusts of up to 20 m/s, the Ukrainian Weather Center reports.
“Moderate – light rains and thunderstorms in the western, night and southern regions, heavy rains in the central, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, sometimes hail in some places, wind gusts and squalls of 15-20 m/s during the day,” the Ukrainian Weather Center said in a statement on Saturday.
The wind will be north, northwest (in the east and northeast, northeast), 5-10 m/s. Temperature at night 15-20°, during the day 20-25°, in the southern and southeastern regions 26-31°; in the highlands of the Carpathians during the day 7-12°.
Rains are also expected in Kyiv on June 25. Northwest wind, 5-10 m/s. The temperature at night will be 18-20°, during the day 23-25°.
According to the Central Geophysical Observatory named after Borys Sreznevsky. Borys Sreznevsky Central Geophysical Observatory in Kyiv, on June 25, the highest daytime temperature was 35.4° in 2021, the lowest at night was 5.8° in 1908.
On Monday, June 26, the rainy weather will continue. “Sometimes rains with thunderstorms are expected, on the Left Bank, at night and in Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, in some places significant rains (at night in the western regions without precipitation). Northwest wind with a transition to northeast, 7-12 m/s, in the northern, central and eastern regions gusts of 15-20 m/s in some places,” the weather service reports.
The temperature will be 11-16° at night, 21-26° during the day, 15-20° in the east and northeast of the country; in the southern part at night 17-22°, 24-29° during the day.
On June 26, rain with thunderstorms is forecast in the capital of Ukraine, with northwest winds shifting to northeast, 7-12 m/s, gusts of 15-20 m/s in some places. The temperature at night will be 14-16°, during the day 21-23°.
From May 15, the intervals between trains of the Kiev subway will be reduced, and second vestibules will be opened at some stations, according to the Kiev City State Administration
“From Monday, intervals between trains will be reduced on each subway line. The waiting time during peak hours on weekdays will be 3-4 minutes, during off-peak – 6-8 minutes. Also the interval between trains will be increased on weekends, during the day the interval between trains will be 6-7 minutes,” – said in a message of the KSCA in Telegram-channel on Friday.
At nine stations will work the second exits. At the station “Obolon” lobby number 1 will work (in the direction of “Minskaya” station). Concourse 2 will remain closed because of repairs.
Recall that “Akademgorodok”, “Darnitsa”, “Lesnaya”, “Minskaya”, “Pochayna” and “Vydubychi” stations have two exits.
In 2022, amid the full-scale war unleashed by Russia, 270 thousand domestic and international tourists visited the capital of Ukraine, which is 11.5 times less than in 2021, with 3.12 million tourists, the Tourism and Promotion Department of the Kyiv City State Administration reported during a report to the Public Council.
According to the department’s Facebook page, 98 thousand foreign tourists visited Kyiv in 2022, which is 10.4 times less than in the post-pandemic year of 2021, when 1.02 million travelers from abroad visited the Ukrainian capital.
At the same time, 172 thousand domestic tourists visited Kyiv last year, compared to 2.1 million in 2021. The leaders among the countries of the world in terms of the number of visitors to the Ukrainian capital in 2022 were Israel – 9.1 thousand tourists (against 105.1 thousand a year earlier), Turkey – 6.8 thousand (69.5 thousand), Germany – 6.4 thousand (71.7 thousand), the United States – 5.6 thousand (75.5 thousand) and the United Kingdom – 4.3 thousand (35 thousand). In 2021, Saudi Arabia was in the top five instead of the UK (46.9 thousand).
With the tourist flow falling by more than 10 times, revenues from the tourist tax fell by only half – to UAH 38.8 million from UAH 76 million a year earlier.
The report explains that the capital’s relatively successful tourist tax performance in 2022 was mainly due to visits by foreign delegations and media representatives who visited our city for work.
