The Kyiv city air quality monitoring system has been officially integrated into the international IQAir service, the Kyiv City State Administration reports.
“Official data on air quality in the capital is available to users of the IQAir website, which forms the world rating of cities according to the state of atmospheric air. There is a network of five reference points for observing the state of atmospheric air of the European standard in Kyiv. They complement more than 40 indicative posts,” the statement reads. message in the Telegram channel.
Data from both types of monitoring points is available to users of the Kyiv Digital application, where they can also receive notifications about a high level of air pollution in the capital.
DTEK Kyiv Grids announced the cancellation of stabilization power outages in Kyiv by Sunday morning.
DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids returned electricity to all consumers who were subjected to stabilization blackouts by order of NPC Ukrenergo from 09:20 on October 22 to 00:36 on October 23. All houses in Kyiv with light,” the company said on its website on Sunday.
For his part, Serhiy Kovalenko, CEO of the energy supplier YASNO, on his Facebook, among other things, announced the cancellation of shutdowns in Kyiv.
“End energy alarm in Kyiv,” he wrote, advising to keep an eye on the company’s announcements to have time to prepare for possible outages.
DTEK Kyiv Regional Electric Grids and DTEK Donetsk Grids also reported that by Sunday morning all their clients, to whom stabilization restrictions were applied by order of Ukrenergo, also had electricity due to their cancellation.
On Sunday morning, the head of the Rivne OVA, Vitaliy Koval, said that during the night, power engineers managed to connect most of the subscribers to the power supply, to whom it was limited due to Russian attacks on the power system. “Now we are working on connecting another 24,750 subscribers. These are, in particular, residents of the village of Zarya, Alexandria, Klevan, Orzhei, Shpanov, Shubkov and others,” he wrote on his Facebook.
At the same time, all publications continue to call on Ukrainians, both the population and businesses, to save electricity as much as possible and not create additional load on the networks during peak hours.
As reported, as a result of damage to the energy infrastructure of Ukraine as a result of the morning large-scale air attacks of Russian troops on October 22, NPC Ukrenergo was forced to impose power supply restrictions in Kyiv and ten regions. According to the company, the scale of destruction on that day is comparable to or greater than that inflicted on the energy system on October 10-12. Earlier, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said that Russian air attacks on energy systems, which have intensified since October 10, have damaged 30-40% of the total national energy infrastructure. According to his calculations, approximately half of the thermal generation capacity was damaged, due to which Ukraine lost 4,000 MW of capacity.
Power cuts have been introduced in Kyiv city and region in order to avoid accidents, the press service of DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids has reported.
“NPC Ukrenergo introduced blackouts in Kyiv region in order to avoid accidents from 23.34 on October 19,” the company said.
The blackouts will reportedly last no more than 4 hours per customer.
“However, it can be repeated within a day after 4 hours if Ukrenergo does not cancel the use of stabilization blackouts. For example, if your house was disconnected from 10:00 to 14:00 in the morning, if the stabilization blackouts continue throughout the day, the second blackout will be from 18.00 to 22.00 and from 02.00 to 06.00,” DTEK said.
The list of settlements, which may be affected, is posted on the DTEK website.
“To support the power system, we urge all residents of the region to consume electricity moderately – turn on energy-intensive appliances one by one, reduce electricity consumption as much as possible in the evening from 17.00 to 23.00. We ask business clients to limit the use of outdoor lighting on the facades of offices, restaurants, shopping centers,” the company again said, noting that it will help reduce the need for blackouts or the number of homes that are disconnected.
Florian Bollen, the new manager of the Tarantino Family restaurant chain, announced his intention to invest in the reconstruction of the Zhytniy Rynok (Zhytniy Market).
A new tenant is working on a reconstruction project in cooperation with Kyiv City State Administration and Zhytniy Rynok municipal enterprise, he said in an interview with Focus.
“The general idea is to make a comfortable public space with a place for Ukrainian producers and farmers, with platforms for public and social initiatives, with quality food at the food court, with comfortable places for trade. A craft brewery will be a highlight. Also in the plans are a cheese factory, a bakery, a children’s zone,” Bollen said.
According to him, reconstruction work can begin next year. At the same time, the businessman did not name the amount of planned investments.
“It is difficult to predict the final estimate amid war. The exchange rate is unstable, the logistics of construction materials is complicated. But I would like to start construction work next year. German Kraft Beer has a good reputation in the financial environment, we have the opportunity to receive affordable loans from European banks,” he emphasized.
Bollen explained that the building is on a long-term lease based on the results of tenders held by Kyiv City State Administration through the ProZorro e-procurement system.
As reported, the Tarantino Family restaurant chain in October 2022 came under the control of Florian Bollen, a German businessman and co-owner of German Kraft Beer craft breweries.
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Moderately cool weather is expected in Ukraine in the next 24 hours.
According to Ukrgidromettsentr, on Monday, October 17, there will be no precipitation in Ukraine. In the western, central and eastern regions, it is foggy in places at night and in the morning. Wind southwest, in the southern part northeast, 5-10 m/s.
The temperature at night is from 3° to 2° below zero, in the extreme west and south of the country 3-8° warm; in the daytime 13-18°, in the western regions in some places up to 22°, in the north of the Left Bank 10-14°.
In Kyiv on Monday without precipitation. Wind southwest, 5-10 m/s. Temperature at night 1-3° warm, daytime 15-17°.
According to the Central Geophysical Observatory. Boris Sreznevsky in Kyiv on October 17, the highest temperature during the day (24.0 °) was in 2018, the lowest at night (-5.8 °) in 1976.
Tuesday, October 18, no precipitation in Ukraine. Wind southwest with transition to northwest, 5-10 m/s. Night temperature 0-5° heat, in western and northern regions 5-10°; daytime 15-20°.
In Kyiv on Tuesday no precipitation. Wind southwest with transition to northwest, 5-10 m/s. Temperature at night 8-10 ° heat; in the afternoon 17-19 °.
The mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), whose positive conclusions will start work on a new program with it, is expected to begin work in Ukraine next week, said the head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Pyshny.
“We expect the start of the IMF mission as early as next week. We hope to reach agreements on macroeconomic indicators, parameters of the state budget for 2023 and sources of covering its deficit, which will be the beginning of work on a new program with the Fund,” the press service of the National Bank quoted him as saying. .
Pyshny also thanked the IMF for providing $1.3 billion in additional emergency financing under the RFI instrument, which arrived in Ukraine on Thursday.
As reported, on the eve of the IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that the Fund’s team, together with the Ukrainian team, immediately after the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank (WB) this week, will determine Ukraine’s macroeconomic framework and budget.
In addition, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen noted that a new full-fledged IMF program for Ukraine could be early next year.
Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said the government estimates the need to finance the state budget deficit in 2023 at $3.5 billion a month, compared to $5 billion a month in 2022, which Ukraine has so far failed to raise. The best indicator was August with $4.6 billion, and in general, since the beginning of the war, or almost eight months, external funding amounted to $20.7 billion, of which almost 50% were grant funds.
The draft state budget of Ukraine for 2023, which was adopted in the first reading, provides for external financing of the deficit in the amount of $38 billion, or about $3.2 billion per month.
