August 08, 2015

08/07/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The Government is preparing the transfer of the customs under the management of the foreign companies

The Government is preparing the transfer of the customs under the management  of the foreign companies
The Government is preparing the transfer of the customs under the management  of the foreign companies

08.07.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

  • The Government is preparing the transfer of the customs under the management  of the foreign companies.
  • UnikreditBank is holding talks on the sale of its subsidiary, "Ukrsotsbank", by the end of the year.
  • Liovochkin-Firtash Structures registered the "Ukraine Tomorrow" trademark  before the Ministry of Informational Politics.

Key Events in Ukraine

  • President Poroshenko vetoed the Law on the Internal Affairs Agencies", adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on July 2, because part of the issues, which this Law should help to solve, belongs to the competence of the Government, and the rest of them were resolved by other legal acts. A Law on the Auditing Chamber, improving the system of private deposits guaranteeing and eliminating the insolvent banks from the market, was signed. The Law not only gives the Auditing Chamber a function of financial control over the expenditures of the state budget, but also allows it to control the treasury revenues. A Law on changes to the Tax Code was also signed, the changes relate to: transfer pricing, reducing the tax burden on tax payers, taxation of  non-profit organizations.
  • The Cabinet approved a bill reducing by more than five times a number of state administrative services, from 3000 to 570, and suggested to bind their cost to the size of the minimum wage in the country. The Government hopes to put it into force starting from January 1, 2016.
  • The General Prosecutor's Office opened criminal cases and conducts inspections regarding the prosecutors who participated in the arrest of the corrupt prosecutors.
  • Head of the State Fiscal Service Nasirov said that already four foreign companies announced about their intention to manage the Ukrainian customs.
  • Media reported that Ukraine started to import electricity from Russia in the amount of up to 1 GW on a regular basis. The Ukrainian power system deficiency at the moment is about 2 GW due to the scheduled repairs at the NPS and the reduction of the coal reserves at some power plants to a critical level.
  • The official hryvnia exchange rate strenthened against the background of the forthcoming agreement with the International Creditors Club : 21.09 UAH/USD (-0.39 UAH), 23.07 UAH/EUR (-0,31 UAH) 3.30 UAH/RUR 10 (- 0.06 UAH).

Ukraine at War

  • The situation in the combat zone significantly escalated. During the day, more than 100 cases of violation of ceasefire by the militants were recorded. They are constantly conducting reconnaissance in different directions, using tanks, heavy artillery and MLRS. Every day, dozens of drones flights are recorded. The most intense fighting is observed in the area of Donetsk - in Maryinka, Krasnogorivka, Peski, Avdeevka, and also Troitske near Artemovsk. Schastye and Stanitsa Luhanska were also under the shellings. During the previous day, according to the official data, two Ukrainian soldiers were killed , seven more were injured.
  • The two regional administrations and six settlements of the Donetsk region were converted into civil-military .
  • Major General Kremenetskiy replaced Major General Taran in the Joint Center for the Monitoring and Coordination of the ceasefire in the Donbass. According to him, the priorities of the Centre will be implementation of the decisions of the Minsk contact group, preventing of the fire, promoting the infrastructure reconstruction and implementation of the peace initiatives of the President.
  • The DPR terrorists announced about the launch on the territory under their control of the "Phoenix" mobile operator, which is mounted on equipment, seized from the "Kyivstar" company . The observers note that the quality of services of other mobile operators significantly decreased since the occupiers are conducting constant monitoring and noising the broadcasting, using the electronic warfare systems.

Ukraine and the World


  • The European Commission presented a report in which it is stated that Europe is not only unaffected by the Russian embargo for  the products, but also it increased the exports of products by 5%, in particular to the United States, China, Switzerland, Turkey, Egypt, South Korea. The exports of fruit, which traditionally were delivered to Russia, decreased, but the supplies of meat, meat and dairy products significantly increased .
  • The Attorney of Ukrainian deputy Savchenko, captured by the militants and taken to Russia, against who the Russian authorities opened a criminal case for the alleged murder of journalists, provided evidence of her innocence.
    Savchenko anounced that her book "The strong name of Nadezhda" will be published in Ukraine , and its presentation will take place on August 20th.
  • The US Department of Treasury urged the International Creditors Committee to reach a compromise in the negotiations with the Ukrainian government as soon as possible , observing the criteria set out in the program of cooperation with the IMF.
  • The Russian Customs detained on the border more than a hundred carriages with Ukrainian salt, as well it introduces the licensing for supplies of rubble and gravel from Ukraine.
  • Russia continues to destruct the products from countries agaist which the counter-sanctions were introduced. The Western media have expressed bewilderment, considering the current madness stupid and mean. The quality of Russian food is much lower than the one of the imported goods. The observers believe that instead of destroying the products they could distribute them among the needy.

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