KYIV, Aug 9 – Russia's Rosatom has handed over to Russian-occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP) a plan to reconnect the plant to Crimea, which is currently being implemented by the occupiers, President of state-owned enterprise National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom Petro Kotin said during the national telethon on Tuesday.
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The war has become a new negative factor influencing business activity and the investment environment in Ukraine, as a result of which the integral indicator of the Investment Attractiveness Index of Ukraine, calculated by the European Business Association (EBA), over the six months fell from 2.73 to 2.17 points from 5 possible, which was the minimum since 2013.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 8 - The Biden administration said Monday it was shipping its biggest yet direct delivery of weapons to Ukraine as that country prepares for a potentially decisive counteroffensive in the south against Russia, sending $1 billion in rockets, ammunition and other material to Ukraine from Defense Department stockpiles.
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TOKYO, Aug. 8 - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged countries with nuclear weapons to stick to their no-first-use commitment of their atomic arsenals, warning that the nuclear arms race has returned amid growing international tension.
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KYIV, Aug 8 – Ukraine must focus on winning the war against Russia because that country does not respect international order and any negotiated agreement will probably be violated by Moscow, Mykhailo Podoliak, advisor to head of the President’s Office, said.
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KYIV, Aug 8 – Zaporizhia NPP is currently connected to the energy system of Ukraine by one operating transmission line, and if it is damaged by Russian invaders, the plant will switch to blackout mode, President of Energoatom Petro Kotin said on the air of the national telethon on Monday.
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KYIV, Aug 8 – The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets has called on the United Nations (UN) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to send a security mission to the occupied Zaporizhia NPP.
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KYIV, Aug 8 – The export of agricultural products from Ukraine continues to be hampered by queues of grain wagons at the western border, an increase in railway transportation tariffs by Ukrzaliznytsia, as well as a lack of free transport and low purchase prices for agricultural crops on the domestic market, according to the website of the Ukrainian Agri Council (UAC).
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KYIV, Aug 8 – The opportunity to use all three seaports of Odesa within the framework of the Istanbul Grain Initiative will help increase transshipment volumes to three or five vessels a day within two weeks, Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov has said.
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KYIV, Aug 8 – On Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting on compensating Ukraine for the damage caused by the armed aggression of Russia.
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