Resumption of electricity exports, formation of new military administrations: highlights of the day

Resumption of electricity exports

Energy Minister German Galushchenko has signed an executive order allowing the resumption of electricity exports in the face of a surplus of generating capacity.

The exports will be subject to the supply of electricity to Ukrainian consumers and may be suspended if the situation changes.

At the same time, Ukraine will suspend grain exports to Poland

Ukraine will not export wheat, corn, sunflower and rapeseed to Poland until the new season. Instead, the countries will develop new rules for the transit of agricultural crops.

The reason was the protests of Polish farmers that lasted several months. They complained that products that should be in transit through Poland remain in the country and are sold. As a result, the price of grain was falling, and they were losing their profits.

Establishment of new military administrations

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has established 19 city, village, and town military administrations in Zaporizhzhya Oblast. The head of state appointed heads to each of these administrations. He also issued a decree appointing heads of military administrations in the temporarily occupied Severodonetsk, Popasna, and Hirske in Luhansk Oblast.

New head of Kyiv Oblast Military Administration appointed

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the appointment of Prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko as the new head of the Kyiv Oblast Military Administration. Earlier, he applied for the position of NABU director, but the Commission recognized him as "dishonest". Kravchenko appealed this decision and demanded to know the reasons.

Kravchenko's declaration for 2021 shows that he and his wife, who works as the head of the translation department at the Prosecutor General's Office, have $53,000 in cash. They explained this by saying that they had been saving money.

The Anti-Corruption Action Center noted that after receiving official housing in December 2018, Kravchenko privatized and sold it in 2019.

Other news

• A Russian attack aircraft was shot down near Maryinka in Donetsk Oblast.
• NYT announced a "leak" of NATO documents on the war in Ukraine on social media. The President's Office responded by saying that the Russians will see the real plans on the battlefield.
• Kyiv City Council wants to terminate the lease agreement with the Russian Embassy in Kyiv.
• The State Bureau of Investigation is probing the death of the head of a border guard outpost in Volyn Oblasy, who arrived at the site where an excavator tripped a mine.
• Metropolitan Onufriy of the Moscow Patriarchate has been holding a Russian passport for more than 20 years, according to the Ukrayinska Pravda investigation.
• The head of a military unit in Odesa Oblast extorted combat allowances from soldiers, the State Bureau of Investigation found.
• The cell of the new abbot was robbed on the territory of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery.