President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting in Kyiv with President of Poland Andrzej Duda, President of Latvia Egils Levits, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda and President of Estonia Alar Karis, who are visiting Ukraine.
“The heads of state held a meeting in the format of a working lunch,” the press service of the President of Ukraine reports.
After the talks are over, the presidents will talk to media representatives.
SkyUp Airlines (Kyiv) is planning to transport large volumes of cargo from China to Ukraine via Poland, Romania and Moldova, and is also developing a concept for transporting cargo from the United States, for which it is necessary to go through a special procedure for obtaining FAA permits.
According to the company’s website, the company is also in dialogue with Southern Airways Express (the USA) regarding the branding of their aircraft in the colors of the Ukrainian flag and is discussing the possibility of creating “sister airlines” that could attract SkyUp employees to work on an outsourcing basis.
According to the airline’s website, in March, SkyUp performed 21 evacuation flights on the Chisinau-Tel Aviv route and transported 2,835 refugees to Israel under the repatriation program, as well as their 124 pets.
Today, SkyUp is working on the possibility of performing evacuation flights to Portugal, Sweden and the UK under the Israel-Romania program.
In addition, SkyUp agreed with Suceava Airport (Romania) on the possibility of transporting cargo. This is the closest point to the border of Ukraine.
The company has now also confirmed shipments of humanitarian supplies from Portugal and Israel to Ukraine via Poland, including helmets and clothing for the army.
It is noted that during this time the company transported 112 tonnes of humanitarian cargo. The cargo included medicines, including insulin, baby food, personal hygiene and household chemicals, blankets, diapers, etc. The cargo was distributed according to its intended purpose: for the needs of Ukrainian refugees in Chisinau and various cities of Ukraine.
Since February 24, 2.5 million citizens of Ukraine have crossed the Polish border, according to the Polish Border Guard Service.
“Yesterday, on April 5, 21,000 travelers were registered, which is 13% more than the day before (18,500). Today, 4,700 had been issued by 07:00 with an increase of 23%,” the message posted on Twitter says.
Since February 24, 485,000 people have left Poland for Ukraine.
JSC DTEK Zakhidenergo continues to buy out all the proposed interstate section capacity for exporting electricity to Poland at daily auctions for April, according to data on the website of NPC Ukrenergo.
According to the published results of the auction for April 2-6, the company bought 190 MW of distributed power for each hour of the day.
According to the data on the ENTSO-E website, from April 1 to April 5, exports are the same – in a flat schedule of 190 MWh all day.
As of April 6, data are not yet available.
As reported, on March 28, Ukrenergo resumed daily auctions for the purchase of interstate cross sections for the export of electricity to Poland. All import-export auctions were suspended on February 24 due to the entry of the Ukrainian power system into an isolated mode as part of synchronization with ENTSO-E.
The power systems of Ukraine and Europe switched to synchronous operation on March 16.
“According to the Polish border guard service, about 2 million people have crossed the Ukrainian-Polish border since the beginning of the war, that is, in a month. Now it is difficult to estimate the exact number of those who left the territory of Poland, but this can be understood by the amount of transport. We can say that about 1.5 million people remained in Poland. Another 1.5 million Ukrainians were in Poland before the start of the war. Thus, now there are about 3 million citizens of Ukraine in Poland,” Deshchytsia said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
He stressed that the assistance provided to Ukrainian citizens in Poland deserves great gratitude and praise.
“Ordinary Polish citizens, literally from the first days of the war, went to checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Polish border and met our citizens themselves, mostly women, children, the elderly, picked them up in their cars and took them to their homes,” Deshchytsia said.
According to him, there is also centralized assistance, which is very well organized.
“There is assistance both at the central and local government levels, as well as at the level of civil society. Non-governmental organizations, various foundations, volunteer organizations almost continuously provide assistance to Ukrainians,” the ambassador said.
Deshchytsia added that if we are talking about the level of state support, then at the initiative of the government and unanimous supra-party support in the Senate and the Sejm of Poland, a law on assistance to Ukrainians was adopted, helping the citizens of Ukraine to more easily adapt to the conditions in which they found themselves in Poland.
“Firstly, it allows them to stay in Poland legally for the next 18 months with the right to extend their legal stay in the country for another year and a half, and with the documents they arrived with. Secondly, this is a one-time financial assistance for each person, amounting to approximately PLN 300 [equivalent to $80-100]. Thirdly, it is an opportunity to speed up the employment procedure, the opportunity to receive the same social, medical, and pension benefits that the Poles have. To do this, however, you need to get a Polish identification code. Fourthly, this involves helping Ukrainian children to get them into educational institutions, kindergartens, as well as free education in higher educational institutions,” the Ukrainian ambassador explained.
On Friday, March 18, the number of Ukrainian citizens who arrived in Poland exceeded 2 million people, the Polish Border Guard Service reports.
“Today, that is, March 18, by 9:00 am, the number of refugees from Ukraine exceeded 2 million people. Mostly they are women with children,” the Twitter message says.
