Yesterday (22/08), with the participation of the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov and the Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development of Moldova Andriy Spinu, the updated railway section Berezine (Ukraine) - Basarabeasca (Moldova) was opened.
The resumption of traffic on the site took place within the framework of the work of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine to increase capacity on the western borders of Ukraine with the EU states and Moldova.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has supported the resolution on reducing regulatory and legal pressure on applicants developing investment projects with significant investments, as well as on investors.
The SSU has documented the unlawful activity of persons involved in the illegal export of 650,000 tons of Ukrainian grain worth over USD 200 mln from the temporarily occupied territories of southern Ukraine.
The SSU indentified the entire chain: starting from the traitors who signed the permits to export the grain and ending with all crew members of 10 russian ships that transported the loot.
In the course of the investigation, the SSU has notified the following persons of suspicion:
More grain ships are ready to leave Ukrainian ports, according to the agreed schedule, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said.
He stated this at a joint briefing with his Estonian counterpart, Urmas Reinsalu, in Kyiv on Wednesday, August 3, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched international tenders to procure grain storage facilities and address the current storage deficit in Ukraine, aiming to deploy storage capacity to farmers through 2022-2023. The tenders are open within the projects, financially supported by the Governments of Canada and Japan.
Since the beginning of the occupation of a part of the Kherson region, Russian invaders have implemented a strategy of restricting agrarians and have taken control over the sale of any farm produce in the territory under Ukrainian control.
This has left hundreds of farmers faced with the choice of selling tens of thousands of tons of fruits and vegetables to the occupied Crimea, or letting the crops spoil.
The terminal of the Viterra grain trading corporation was damaged as a result of rocket attack on Mykolayiv. Alla Stoyanova, director of the department of agrarian policy of the Odessa Regional State Administration, wrote about this on her Telegram channel on June 27.
Spring planting in Ukraine continues, 98.5% of last year's spring wheat areas were sown, 95% of the area projected for spring rapeseeds has already been sown. Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Kyiv, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy, and Chernivtsi regions have finished planting spring wheat. In general, sowing of spring grains and pulses was completed by 78% of last year's figures.