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Results 29.12: No lockdowns and SP-2 readiness

Ukrainian authorities ditch the need for further COVID lockdowns

Cabinet assured that there will no longer be COVID lockdowns in Ukraine; Gazprom announced that Sevpotok-2 is fully ready for launch. Korrespondent.net highlights the main events of yesterday.

The Ukrainian authorities refused to introduce strict quarantine

Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said that thanks to the launch of free vaccination against coronavirus, the country’s power is greater do not plan to introduce total lockdowns… He also announced that in the near future half of adult Ukrainians will be vaccinated against the infection.

The head of Gazprom announced the readiness of SP-2 for operation

The head of the Russian Gazprom, Alexei Miller, announced that the filling of the second string of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline with gas has been completed, and now both lines of the pipeline are under working pressure and are completely ready for operation.

Several searches were carried out in the Poroshenko case

GBR and SBU searched in the case of organizing coal supplies from the uncontrolled territories of Donbass, the defendant in which is former President Petro Poroshenko. As reported in the European Solidarity, searches were carried out at several party members.

The Ministry of Health found out where Omicron came from in Ukraine

In Ukraine it is confirmed six cases of the Omicron coronavirus strain: two residents of Kiev, two residents of the Kiev region, one from Lvov and one from Dnipro. Three infected “brought” this variant of COVID from Germany, Poland and the UAE.

Kiev extended the special duties on fuel from the Russian Federation

Government of Ukraine extended until the end of 2022 the effect of a 4% special duty on diesel fuel supplied from the Russian Federation, a 3% duty on liquefied gas, as well as a 65% duty on imports from the Russian Federation of all types of coal, except for anthracite, coking and bituminous coal.

The White House announced Biden’s talks with Putin and Zelensky

It became known that on December 30, the presidents of the United States and Russia, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, at the initiative of the Kremlin, will hold talks, during which they intend to discuss the situation around Ukraine.

In addition, the White House reported that the near future Biden will also speak with the Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky.

Oil prices hit a monthly high

In connection with a decrease in oil reserves in the United States, the price of the February Brent futures contract rose above $ 80 per barrel for the first time since November 26, and the price of a WTI crude oil futures for February 2022 delivery increased by 0.7% to $ 76.51 per barrel.

Another 88 thousand tons of coal delivered to Ukraine

To port Yuzhny the ship Van Gogh has arrived with 88 thousand tons of coal from Colombia. This is the fourth ship with imported thermal coal for state thermal power plants since the end of November. In general, about 300 thousand tons of fuel have already been delivered to Ukraine by sea.

Saakashvili was transferred from hospital to prison

In Georgia, after 40 days of treatment in a military hospital in the city of Gori, ex-President Mikhail Saakashvili sent back to jail Rustavi. According to the girl of the imprisoned politician, Ukrainian People’s Deputy Yelizaveta Yasko, Saakashvili was “forcibly kidnapped” in the middle of the night and “forcibly knocked down and taken to the Rustavi prison.”

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