The Nova Poshta group of companies intends to begin testing the parcel delivery service between the countries of the European Union in 2024 in order to fully launch this service in 2025, co-owner of Nova Poshta Viacheslav Klimov told Forbes Ukraine on Monday.
The state wants to take away Naftogaz’s right to decide on its subsidiaries’ dividends. The draft law on the 2024 state budget (Draft Law No. 10000) proposes that entities in which 50 percent or more of shares are owned by Naftogaz must pay their 2023 dividends directly to the state budget. Naftogaz is carved out individually in this draft law, which is considered to be a poor practice.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Russia's war against Ukraine is "existential for Europe," adding that Europeans "can't afford not to win along with Ukraine."
Russia has transferred Western-made weapons captured in Ukraine to Hamas extremists fighting against Israel, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) reported on Oct. 9. Moscow plans to falsely accuse the Ukrainian military of selling weaponry provided by the U.S. and EU to Hamas, according to the military intelligence.
Ukraine’s grain exports are getting it from all sides. In plain defiance of the EU, Ukraine’s western neighbors Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia imposed their own restrictions on Ukrainian imports, despite the European Commission’s Sept. 15 decision to lift an embargo on the domestic sale of Ukrainian agricultural products in five countries. Hungary went even further, expanding the embargo to include 24 Ukrainian agricultural products, including vegetables, some meat products, and honey.