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20 June 2022
The U.S. president’s administration is taking comprehensive measures to blunt the impact of inflation, including fuel price hikes, while Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine is destabilizing global energy markets and global economy as a whole.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer have discussed support for Ukraine's European integration and the organization of green corridors for the export of Ukrainian products.
The German railway is planning to assist with Ukraine’s grain exports, and relevant trial operations are expected to be completed in July 2022.
Ukraine has recently exported by land an average of 1.5 million tonnes of grain a month.
Russia's efforts to block Ukraine from exporting millions of tonnes of its grain constitute a war crime, EU top diplomat Josep Borrell said June 20.
19 June 2022
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs negotiates the re-opening of McDonald’s restaurants in Ukraine.
In order to steal wheat from Luhansk Region, Russian invaders have hastily laid railroad tracks from the territory of Russia towards Starobilsk.
18 June 2022
Ukrtelecom has successfully restored operations of its landline phone network in more than 1,200 settlements and resumed communication services to more than 350,000 households, having ensured coverage across 87% of the national network.
The Ukrainian government suggests that the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) introduce sanctions against Russia’s Rosneftegaz and its affiliated enterprises, namely TatOil.
More than 10 billion cubic meters has already been accumulated in Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities, and these volumes are growing.
The sum of infrastructure damages has already reached $104 billion. At least 45 million square meters of housing, 656 hospitals, more than 1,200 educational institutions, nearly 25,000 kilometers of roads, 300 bridges, and 12 airports have been destroyed or damaged as a result of Russian strikes.
The European Commission, jointly with V_labs and Rail Cargo Group, has launched the Grainlane trading platform, which will help optimize grain exports from Ukraine to EU member states.
The Kremenchuk Oil Refinery which was once again hit by Russian missiles Saturday, June 18, will not be restored this year, while talks about the repair of the local combined heat and power plant (CHPP) are yet to be held.
17 June 2022
A total of 13.4 million hectares, or 95% of the projected area, have been sown with spring crops in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is convinced that Europe's security is impossible without liberation from the chains of dependence that Russia has been creating for decades.
Gas TSO of Ukraine and the Energy Ministry have proposed that the members of the European Parliament support the suspension of Russian gas transit via the Nord Stream 1 pipe.
Germany could get rid of Russian gas dependency only through a national effort, both at the level of federal, state, and local authorities, as well as at that of private companies and households. By 2024, Germany is able to cut Russian gas consumption to a mere 10%.
Russia has again raised gas prices in Europe, and this is another argument in favor of the fact that Europe must refuse gas supplies from the Russian Federation.
16 June 2022
Romania has ensured the transit of more than one million tonnes of grain from Ukraine since the start of Russia's all-out offensive.
Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Vadym Prystaiko has said he is disappointed that well-known British companies Unilever and OSTC continue to do business in Russia.
It may take three to four months to set up temporary storage facilities for Ukrainian grain in Poland.
15 June 2022
Ukraine has offered the United States a "lend-lease" agreement on the supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in order to get about six billion cubic meters of fuel.
Ukrainian officials have proposed that their U.S. partners supply liquefied natural gas to Ukraine under a lend-lease deal to make sure the nation secures at least 6 billion cubic meters ahead of the heating season.
Ukraine is already preparing additional grain storage facilities, which will help in the absence of exports through the country’s ports to preserve both last year's residues and the new crops, which will be actively harvested in a month.
14 June 2022
The United States, along with its allies and partners, is working to implement an alternative scheme for exporting grain from Ukraine by rail, which involves building temporary grain silos on Ukraine's borders.
The governments of EU member states are considering providing Ukraine with temporary modular structures for storing harvested grain.
Russia's state monopoly Gazprom has said it is cutting natural gas supplies to the Nord Stream pipeline by 40 percent, citing breached repair deadlines by Siemens.
On June 14, the European Union cuts off Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, Russian Agricultural Bank, and Credit Bank of Moscow from SWIFT international payments system as part of the sixth package of sanctions against Russia over its aggression against Ukraine.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have signed a memorandum on cooperation in agriculture, the ministry's press service has told Ukrinform.
The communities of the Ukrainian village of Makariv in the Kyiv region and the German village of Wandlitz in the state of Brandenburg will cooperate as part of technical assistance projects to Ukraine.