Partners news Wednesday, July 21 Editor’s Note : About 17% of Ukraine’s workforce may be working outside the country. Between three and five million Ukrainian work abroad, Ella Libanova, demographer for the National Academy of Sciences, told yesterd...
Partners news Wednesday, July 21 Expecting a surge of the Delta variant in September, the Health Ministry is proposing a 14-day self-isolation period for unvaccinated foreign visitors. People who have negative PCR tests would have only seven days in isolation. Prime Minister Shmyhal recommends creating vaccination stations at border crossings. #Covid19inUkraine #CovidDeltaUkraine #DelataVariantinUkraine
Partners news Wednesday, July 21 Starting today, Covid-19 vaccination are open to all Ukrainian adults who sign up through the Diia app. Health Minister Victor Lyashko said. “You can get vaccinated at your nearest vaccination point, or mass vaccination center,” he said. Ukraine administers four kinds of vaccines; AstraZeneca, Moderna, ... #DiiaAppUkraine #Diiahelpstovaccinate #VaccinationthroughDiia
Agriculture Wednesday, July 21 Climate change means that agricultural zones are shifting north “by hundreds of kilometers,” Agriculture Minister Roman Leshchenko said speaking at a farming forum in Kyiv yesterday. “The temperature has risen by more than 1 degree Celsius in 10 years — this has a very serious impact on... #Climatchangeaffectsfarming #ClimateChangeUkraine #FarmingForumKyiv
Partners news Wednesday, July 21 With more people swimming to escape the hot weather, 265 people drowned in Ukraine in the first three weeks of July . This represents one third of all 808 water deaths so far this year. Last Saturday, Kyiv authorities banned all swimming on city beaches, due to heavy pollution and algae blooms.
Partners news Wednesday, July 21 Due to last week’s heat wave, electricity consumption grew by almost 6%, reported Ukrenergo, the national power transmission company. With the average daily temperatures increasing by 2°С, air conditioning use surged. Compared to the same week last year, electricity usage ... #ElectricityConsumptionUkraine #Hotweather2021
Partners news Wednesday, July 21 Ukraine’s adult population is divided in thirds, said Lyubchenko. There are 11 million people officially employed. There are also 11 million people who are paid in cash, off the books. And there are 11 million retirees who receive social security pa... #UkraineAdultPopulation #UkrainePopulation
Partners news Wednesday, July 21 Economy Minister Oleksii Lyubchenko summed up, telling the forum: “We are leaders in Europe in terms of the number of able-bodied people working abroad.” Looking ahead, he said: “We must replace the phrase ‘I want to leave’ with ‘I want to return.... #UkrainelaborinEU #Ukrainianworkforce #workingabroad
Partners news Wednesday, July 21 The number of Ukrainians citizens working in Portugal has dropped by two thirds over the last decade – from 100,000 to 30,000 today, said Inna Ognivets, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Portugal. “This is mainly due not to the massive departure from the country, but primarily to the acquisition of Portuguese ... #UkraineLaborinPortugal #UkrainiansinPortugal #WorkingInportugal
Partners news Wednesday, July 21 With an unemployment rate below 3%, the Czech Republic adopted a “Ukraine Project,” quadrupling the annual quota of work visas to 40,000 . “According to Czech employers, Ukrainian workers are very hardworking, they learn quickly, there is practically no language barrier and therefore they are highly valued here,” said the Ukrainian Amb... #UkraineLaborforce #UkrainelaborinCzechRepublic #WorkinginCzechRepublic
Partners news Wednesday, July 21 Without Ukrainian workers, the Czech economy would misfire, said Yevhen Perebiynis, Ukraine’s ambassador to the Czech Republic. “Without Ukrainian workers – and this is confirmed by almost everyone – the Czech Republic today would not be able to li... #CzechRepublicWorkPermits #UkrainelaborinCzechRepublic #WorkinginCzechRepublic
Partners news Wednesday, July 21 About 1.5 million Ukrainians work in Poland, which is three times the number of working in the country in 2014, said Andriy Deschytsia, Ukraine’s ambassador to Poland, speaking at the Ukraine 30. Human Capital Forum yesterday. Over the period 2014 – 2021, the number of Ukrainian-owned companies has increa... #UkrainelaborinPOland #ukrainiansinpoland #workinginpoland
Finance Wednesday, July 21 Ukraine’s central bank is likely to keep its key interest rate unchanged at 7.5% tomorrow, expecting inflation will slow down in coming months, indicates a Reuters poll of analysts. At the meeting of the monetary policy board of the National Bank of Ukraine, ten of 14 Ukrainian analysts for... #CentralBankofUkrainekeepstherate #NBUprimerate #PrimeRateinUkraine
Finance Wednesday, July 21 Yesterday the Finance Ministry sold $285 million worth of bonds, 21% less than the previous week. The sale covered half of UAH 15.6 billion in principal repayments due today. Interest rates on all six bonds were unchanged from the previous week, the Ministry reported. They ranged from 10.99% for 1... #UkraineBondMarket #ukrainebonds #UkraineGovernmentBonds
Partners news Wednesday, July 21 Predicting a cool Ukrainian reception, Timothy Ash wrote: “The optics of this are just stunning. Germany and the USA deciding on Ukraine’s future, without even giving them a seat at the table. It’s perverse that the one country that Nord Stream 2 impacts is ... #USAandGermany #USandGermanydecidefutureforUkraine
Partners news Wednesday, July 21 To sell the agreement to Ukraine and Poland, Derek Chollet, State Department counselor, will meet with officials in Kyiv today and in Warsaw tomorrow . His mission’s goal is to discuss “our shared concerns about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and energy security,” the State Department says. A top advisor to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Chollet ha... #polandandukraine #PolandUkraineAgreement
Energy Wednesday, July 21 Germany will also channel gas to Ukraine in the event that Russia cuts gas supplies to Ukraine , Reuters reports from Washington. The $11 billion pipeline – 98% complete – is to send Arctic gas directly from Russia to Germany across the Baltic seabed. Coupled with Nord Stream 1 and TurkStream, ... #GasforUkraine #GasThroughUkraine #GermanyandUkraine
Energy Wednesday, July 21 Germany and the US are finalizing an agreement which would allow Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to open this fall – under certain conditions, Bloomberg reports from Washington, citing U.S. officials. Conditions are to include: sanctions if Russia tries to use the pipeline as a weapon against Ukraine; Germany would lobby Russia to extend Gaz... #NordStream2compleation #NordStream2opening #UkraineDependsonEnergysources