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Ukraine ready to ensure food security in Qatar
13.04.2021
Beyond “ensuring Qatar’s food security,” Ukraine is discussing using Qatar as a logistics hub to supply food to the region, ukrinform.net reported.The Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Qatari state investment food company Hassad Food. This document is expected to simplify and speed up the communication between the two QatarQatar’s Nebras Power and Kyiv’s UDP Renewables enter into consortium
13.04.2021
Qatar’s Nebras Power and Kyiv’s UDP Renewables have entered into a consortium. It’s designed to yield up to USD 250m in joint investment in Ukrainian solar and wind plants by the end of next year.Qatar-based Nebras, a state-owned company, is expected to buy control of six solar stations. The next stage of the partnership will be the implementation of new wind power projects which will create new capacity.As part of the cooperation program, new green energy facilities will be created ...US, UK, Canada, Lithuania, and Poland reaffirmed support for Ukraine amid russian military activity
09.04.2021
The representatives of defense ministries of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Lithuania, and Poland held a virtual meeting on the situation around Ukraine, as well as potential opportunities for providing security assistance, ukrinform.net reported.“The leaders reaffirmed their unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and Euro-Atlantic aspirations and discussed concerns about the increase in russian military activity in the region. russia’s destabilizing actions undermine the de-escalation in tensions achieved through the OSCE-brokered agreement on July 27, 2020,” says ...Ferrexpo deploys large-scale autonomous haul trucks operation
20.03.2021
Ferrexpo said to be the first mining company in Europe to deploy autonomous haul trucks on a large scale. A self-driving fleet frees humans from operating in hazardous environments, whilst offering a productivity increase from trucks operating 24/7.A US company, Autonomous Solutions, installed the autopilot equipment on several large-capacity Caterpillar trucks now in use at the Eristovsky open pit mine in Poltava region.At the same time, Ferrexpo has already started looking at possibilities of electrification and introducing battery technology to ...Ukraine engines will power Turkey’s ATAK-2 helicopters
20.03.2021
Turkey is planning to equip its heavy attack helicopter ATAK-2 with 2x Ukrainian-built 2,500 hp turboshaft engines, Defence Turk reported.The Ukrainian engine, supposedly one of the most recent versions of the Motor Sich TV3-117 turboshaft engine, has been selected as a bridge-gap solution until Turkey can build its own alternative. The ATAK-2 is scheduled to make its first flight in the spring of 2023. Turkey will.Ukraine and Turkey continue to intensify the bilateral cooperation in the defense technology sector.Ukraine’s Navy receives Neptune mobile anti-ship cruise missile system
15.03.2021
Ukrainian Navy received the prototypes of the Ukrainian RK-360MTs Neptune mobile anti-ship cruise missile system, the press service of the Ministry of Defense reported.The systems were manufactured under a state contract between the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the State Enterprise “Kyiv State Design Bureau Luch”.As noted, the Neptune systems will significantly strengthen the capabilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Azov-Black Sea region. The relevant unit has already been formed in the Ukrainian Navy.Austrian ex-minister dances her way into Rosneft
14.03.2021
Austria’s ex-foreign minister Karin Kneissl is about to join an ever-expanding list of senior Western politicians working for the kremlin, euobserver.com reported.The 56-year old, who led Austria’s diplomacy between 2017 and 2019, is to become a board member of russian state oil firm Rosneft. The firm that is run by one of russian president Vladimir putin’s closest friends, Igor Sechin. It is under EU and US sanctions over russia’s invasion of Ukraine and lost an EU court appeal to get ...russia doubled military presence in Crimea over seven years
14.03.2021
Since the beginning of the occupation of Crimea, russia has multiplied its military presence on the Ukrainian peninsula, ukrinform.net reported.“Over the past seven years, the russian military presence on the peninsula has more than doubled,” Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said at the United Nations Security Council high-level Arria-formula meeting on Crimea on March 12. As the minister noted, russia’s subversive policy is aimed both at legitimizing the attempt to annex the peninsula, consolidate the status quo ...Ukraine to create online museum of russian propaganda
14.03.2021
The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy plans to create an online museum of russian propaganda in Ukraine, Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko said, ukrinform.net reported.“The center that we are currently creating on the basis of the ministry, because we have such an element as information policy, is a small first brick to create a large enough international center to combat disinformation in Ukraine. We follow the example of the Baltic States. Similar centers are operating in ...Ukraine climbs 17 positions in Social Progress Index in 2020
14.03.2021
Ukraine climbed 17 positions from 80th to 63rd place in 2020 in the Social Progress Index among 163 countries with a score of 73.38 points versus 66.97 in 2019, according to the index data.“It is important that in the year of the pandemic, Ukraine improved its position in this global ranking. This means that at least part of the challenges we responded correctly,” Minister of Social Policy Maryna Lazebna said.According to the study, the average score of the index among ...Preply raises USD 35m in series B funding
10.03.2021
Ukrainian global language learning marketplace Preply raised USD 35m in Series B funding, ain.ua reported.Owl Ventures and Full In Partners co-led the round with participation from previous investors Point Nine Capital, Hoxton Ventures, EduCapital, All Iron, Diligent Capital, and Evli Growth Partners.Also, angel investors including Niklas Ostberg, co-founder & CEO of Delivery Hero; Arthur Kosten, co-founder of Booking.com; David Helgason, co-founder of Unity Technologies; and Przemyslaw Gacek, co-founder of Grupa Pracuj, also participated in the current round.According to Preply CEO ...russian radar system Kasta-2E1 spotted in Donbas
08.03.2021
Volunteers of InformNapalm international intelligence community received exclusive visual proof of the reports about the first official sighting of the russian 51U6 Kasta-2E1 radar station in the occupied part of the Ukrainian Donbas. In this feature, they will supplement the OSCE report with additional information and facts.russian radar station of this type was first discovered by the OSCE observers on the footage from a mini UAV. Text information about the sighting was published in the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) daily report 38/2021 dated February 17, ...
