The diplomatic mission of the European Council in Ukraine is returning from Polish Rzeszow to Kyiv, the press service of the European External Action Service in Brussels (EEAS) reported.
“The European Union is resuming its diplomatic presence in Kyiv. After the Russian invasion on February 24, the European Union Delegation was temporarily relocated to the Polish city of Rzeszow. Today, during his visit to Kyiv, EU High Representative Josep Borrell announced that the work of the EU Delegation to Ukraine will now again be carried out from Kyiv “, – said in a message on the official website of the EU on Friday evening.
“With this visit, the European Union is returning back to Kyiv. I mean it literally: our head of our delegation has returned here so that we can work even more directly and closely with the Ukrainian authorities,” the EEAS press service quoted Borrell as saying.
EU Delegation Head Matti Maasikas accompanied High Representative Borrell and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on their joint visit to Kyiv on Friday. They stayed in the capital to reopen the premises of the representative office and assess the conditions for the gradual return of all employees of the representative office to Kyiv.
“During our stay in Kyiv, we saw firsthand the ability of the Ukrainian administration to ensure the effective and full functioning of state and government structures, despite very difficult circumstances. The return of our delegation to Kyiv will ensure even better interaction with the government and greater support from the Ukrainian people,” he added. Supreme Representative.
Some members of the Delegation will remain in Rzeszow and work from there.
As previously reported, this week the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry announced the return of the ambassador to Kyiv. The diplomats were also returned by the Latvian Foreign Ministry. At the end of March, Slovenia’s charge d’affaires arrived in the capital of Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the war unleashed by Russia, the Polish ambassador to Ukraine has always remained in Kyiv, who clarified to the media that in addition to him, the Turkish ambassador and the apostolic nuncio to Ukraine also worked in the Ukrainian capital.
The medical group of companies “Adonis” plans to resume the work of the maternity hospital in Kyiv in the near future.
As the Interfax-Ukraine agency was told in the medical group, it is planned that the work of the maternity hospital, which was closed on March 5 for technical reasons, will resume on April 8.
“At the moment, all technical problems have been eliminated. We will accept patients both for pregnancy and childbirth. This applies to all patients from both the Adonis maternity hospital in Buzovoy (Kyiv region) and the maternity hospital in Kyiv. We also accept all patients who need help,” the company said.
As reported, on March 1, the Russian aggressor fired at the Adonis maternity hospital in Buzovaya, at which time pregnant women, women in labor and babies arrived. All patients were evacuated, no one was hurt.
Adonis is a network of private medical centers for adults and children founded over 20 years ago. It includes 12 branches in Kyiv and the region, including two own maternity hospitals and a stem cell laboratory.
In the branches of the clinic, doctors receive patients in 66 medical areas.
The medical group of companies Adonis has not stopped the work of Kyiv clinics since the beginning of hostilities, and has resumed elective pediatric surgery at a clinic in Shalimov Street, the medical network told the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
“Adonis did not stop work in Shalimov Street during the period of hostilities. We switched to the format of a military field hospital. We provide assistance around the clock to the wounded and the civilian population,” Olena Mukhina, the deputy medical director of the medical group, said.
According to her, the clinic in Shalimov Street “was not originally intended for military needs, but we decided to reformat it.”
Mukhina noted that the clinic, having three specialties working around the clock – obstetrics and gynecology, pediatric surgery, anesthesiology, maximally covers the needs of the civilian population.
“Even births in emergency conditions were taken, not being a maternity hospital in fact,” she said.
Mukhina said that the Shalimov clinic plans to resume consultations with an endocrinologist in the near future.
“Requests for elective surgeries have declined, but there are,” she said.
In turn, the director of the Adonis branch in Spaska Street, Kyrylo Kretov, also noted that due to the war, the number of scheduled operations has decreased.
“The clinic in Spaska did not stop its work. We provide emergency care to wounded soldiers and civilians. We carry out planned operations: general surgery, gynecology, orthopedics-traumatology, proctology. We conduct outpatient appointments,” he said.
In the capital, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, 154 residential buildings, 20 private estates, 27 kindergartens and 44 schools have been damaged as a result of enemy shelling, the Kyiv city military administration reports.
“In Kyiv, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the enemy, 154 residential buildings, 20 private estates, 27 kindergartens and 44 schools have been damaged. A group of experts is working in the capital to assess the damage to the city’s infrastructure, residential buildings and private estates. It includes builders, representatives of institutions and economists,” the Telegram channel said in a message.
It is noted that they will provide the city with proposals for a work plan and an estimated cost of repairing the damage.
In the Svyatoshinsky district of the capital, power supply was resumed, according to the Kiev City State Administration.
“Power supply in the Svyatoshinsky district of Kyiv has been resumed after damage that occurred as a result of hostilities in the suburbs. Currently, work is underway to connect individual consumers. Specialists from DTEK Kyiv Electric Networks have carried out repair work in 6 places,” the statement said. in the telegram channel.
As reported, on Saturday, in the Svyatoshinsky district of Kyiv, there was no electricity supply due to hostilities in the direction of Gostomel and Irpen, during the day there was a reduced water pressure on the right bank of the capital.
Smog over Kyiv on Saturday morning is the result of a burning landfill near Novi Petrivtsi and calm weather, Vadym Denysenko, an adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, has said.
“Smog over Kyiv. Why did it appear: 1. The landfill near Novi Petrivtsi is burning down. 2. Windless weather. As soon as the wind appears, the smog will dissipate from the operation of thermal power plants and smoke from fires in the vicinity of Kyiv,” he wrote on Facebook.
Denysenko noted that in the Chornobyl zone, from the point of view of the fire situation, everything is calm.
In turn, Kyiv City State Administration noted that “there is a slight smoke in the capital.”
“This is due to changes in weather conditions, in particular the wind direction. According to experts, the air quality is in line with the standards. But please do not open windows and do not leave the house unnecessarily,” according to a message on the Telegram channel.
