Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine - Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine declared:
"I opened the historic first meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council, initiated on July 22 by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a conversation with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
We discussed Russia's obstruction of free navigation in the Black Sea. The enemy's goal is obvious — to deprive the world of Ukrainian food, thereby creating a global food crisis.
The grain agreement between Ukraine and Russia was meant to secure the global export of Ukrainian grain. It is now on the verge of being terminated. What would that mean?
russia has completely stopped registering a new fleet since June 26, which indicates its intention to disrupt food supplies to world markets.
The amount of direct damage caused by the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP is at least USD 2 billion. This includes losses in the housing and utilities sector, energy, agriculture, transport, environment, and industry. These data are presented in the first analysis carried out by the KSE Institute, an analytical unit of the Kyiv School of Economics, in cooperation with the Office of the President of Ukraine, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development.
On 29 June, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ratified the Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union on Ukraine’s participation in the EU’s Fiscalis programme for cooperation in the field of taxation.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has adopted Resolution No. 637 “On amendments to the Procedure for Certification, Issuance and Cancellation of Certificates for Seeds and/or Planting Material”. The document was prepared by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
Last week, deminers surveyed more than 5,000 hectares of agricultural land in four regions of the country and cleared more than 3,000 hectares, according to regional military administrations. In total, more than 150,000 hectares of farmland have been surveyed since the beginning of the year, out of the 470,000 hectares planned for priority clearance.
Taras Vysotskyi, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, presented the Agricultural Development Strategy for the next ten years at the International Ukraine Recovery Conference in London.
Ukraine aims to clear and bring 80% of potentially contaminated land back into productive use within ten years. This was stated by Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine, in her speech at the session on humanitarian demining held on 22 June as part of the Recovery Conference in London.
The Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company and the International Finance Corporation signed an agreement at the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2023 in London in the presence of Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine and Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development.