Former Deputy Minister of Transport, Adviser to Ukravtodor CEO Oleksandr Kava says there are about 17,000 bridges of various lifetime and size in Ukraine, while 4,500 of them require immediate repair. “We have 17,000 bridges along public roads, two-thirds of which require major repairs, while 4,500 bridges need very urgent repairs,” Kava noted. The official…
Ukrainian defense budget in 2019 should amount to at least UAH 119 billion ($4 billion), according to Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Viktor Muzhenko. “We calculated that this should be about UAH 112 billion, a minimum required for the Army, while we are currently seeing the funding will be…
Ernest Airlines will launch two direct flights from Kharkiv to Italy in 2019. This was discussed at the meeting of First Deputy Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Mark Bekker with Ernest Airlines Business Development Director Chady El Tannir. “The first Ernest Airlines flights from Kharkiv will be launched in March 2019 on two…
Ukrainian acting Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Maxim Martynyuk has called for more trade relations with Iran in various spheres, particularly between the food industries. Martynyuk, at a meeting with Iran’s Ambassador to Kiev Mohammad Beheshti, said that Ukraine saw Iran not only as an important partner, but also as a main regional country.…
Meat production in Ukraine in January-June totaled 1.78 million tons (live weight), down by 0.3% YoY. Milk production in the country in H1 declined by 2%, to 6 million, while egg production grew by 2.6%, to 9.65 billion eggs, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine said. The data excluded reports from temporarily occupied areas in…
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko held a meeting with Minister of Environmental Protection, Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister of Israel Ze’ev Elkin. “The interlocutors discussed an intensive trade and economic cooperation between the two countries and noted significant prospects for its further development. In this regard, they agreed on the need for the earliest possible…
The Deposit Guarantee Fund last week sold insolvent banks’ assets worth UAH 110.05 million, the fund’s press service reports. “Last week assets of 20 banks, which were in the management of the fund, were sold for UAH 110.05 million,” reads a report. In particular, UAH 34.36 million was received in repayment of the fund creditors’…