The second delivery of coal for Ukraine is being prepared in South Africa
In the South African port of Richards Bay, a second delivery of 75,000 tons of anthracite began loading on a cargo vessel. This coal is intended to replenish the warehouses of the thermal power plants of DTEK holding that belongs to businessman Rinat Akhmetov. This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine with reference to General Director of DTEK Energy Dmytro Sakharuk.
"The loading of the vessel will take a little more than a week and its arrival in Ukraine is expected in mid-July," he said. …
Ukraine and Switzerland agreed on simplifying visa regime
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pavlo Klimkin announced at a press conference with Didier Burkhalter, the Head of Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland that Ukraine and Switzerland have agreed to simplify the visa regime between the countries.
“We’ve just signed two agreements. I signed with Didier the agreement on facilitating the visa regime. You know that on June 11, we’ll have a visa-free regime with Switzerland but now we settled all issues in such a way that we have clear rules …
Kyiv created a commission to promote Ukraine
The Cabinet of Ministers established an interdepartmental commission to promote Ukraine, headed by the Minister of Information Policy. The corresponding decision was made at a government meeting on Wednesday, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
State Secretary of the Ministry of Information Policy Artem Bidenko was appointed as the Secretary of the commission. Overall, the commission includes eight representatives of state bodies, two advisers to the prime minister, two representatives of enterprises, …
The World Bank will allocate up to $20 million for direct investment in Ukraine
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, will invest up to $20 million into the Emerging Europe Growth Fund III, L.P. (EEGF III), which is a direct investment fund launched by Horizon Capital mainly for investments in Ukraine. This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine with reference to the IFC’s report.
The Board of Directors approved the project at a meeting on June 5. The main investment object of EEGF III will be small- and medium-sized growing enterprises. …
Polish ecologists: Nord Stream 2 is a hazardous and unnecessary project
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is harmful for the ecological initiative, and also contravenes the norms of European law.
Robert Cyglicki, director of Greenpeace Poland, and Marcin Stoczkiewicz, lawyer from the ClientEarth initiative, made a statement to this effect regarding the results of the public hearing and the preparation of comments on the project by ecologists from various countries, which took place on June 5 in Finland.
The Polish ecologists called “Nord Stream 2” a hazardous and …