Yulia Tymoshenko noted that the residents of western oblasts can turn for help by calling 8-044-256-78-08. According to the Prime Minister, there are also hotlines in the Ministry of Emergency Situations and in each oblast and raion state administration in
The Odesa oblast is not threatened by floods," assured Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko at an interview with journalists during her visit to the Dnistrovsky hydroelectric power station while on her working visit to the Chernivtsi and Vinnytsia oblasts. According to
This is a huge amount, and without changes to the budget it will be impossible to allocate such money," said Tymoshenko. The Prime Minister announced that as a result of heavy rains and downpours gas pipelines have also been damaged.
In addition, the Cabinet of Ministers allocated 145 million hryvnias from the State Budget reserve fund for emergency measures in cleaning up after the foods. The Ivano-Frankivsk oblast will receive 60 million hryvnias, Chernivtsi - 50 million, Lviv - 15
According to the Foreign Ministry press-service, with water level rising in the Tysa River, operation of the Sighetu Marmatiei-Solotvyno checkpoint has been suspended at the Ukraine-Romania state border (Zakarpattia region, West Ukraine).
This is what Emergency Minister Volodymyr Shandra said adding that "a stupendous work should be done" to renew bridges. The minister informed that a water level rising in Odesa region is expected July 30-31.
Y. Tymoshenko is scheduled to hold a meeting on a flood relief operation in Ukraine's western regions. Participating in the meeting will be ministers, heads of agencies and local authorities from 700 localities hit by the disaster.
In particular, as many as 73 localities in Ivano-Frankivsk region are cut off, 12 - in Chernivtsi region, 9 - in Lviv region and 3 - in Zakarpattia region.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has declared certain districts in Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Lviv, Ternopil and Chernivtsi regions environmental disaster areas.
When staying in Crimea, Viktor Yushchenko met his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan in Crimea. The two states' leaders discussed a range of issues of bilateral cooperation.They mainly dwelled on the intensification of trade economic cooperation.
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko signed the Cabinet's instruction to ensure rendering assistance to citizens who suffered as a result of the natural disaster that occurred on July 23-27, 2008.
This is what Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said at the aircraft on her way to Ivano-Frankivsk region. She also said the draft document was forwarded to President Viktor Yushchenko.
As was reported, the BYUT initiated holding a special VR session to make amendments to the State Budget with allocation of funds for mitigation of extraordinary situation's consequences in West Ukraine's regions.
Such an opinion was expressed by director of the Kyiv ecology-cultural center Volodymyr Boreiko. According to him, having lost over the previous 40 years a large part of forests, the Ukrainian Carpathian mountains came to be unable to keep moisture.
The government of Ukraine has submitted another draft bill onbudget amendments, which provides for allotment of means for liquidation ofconsequences of the flood in the Western regions of Ukraine. Prime Minister YuliaTymoshenko informed in the airplane on her way to
Authoritiesin the breakaway Dniester region are preparing the evacuation of 50,000people from settlements on the overflowing Dniester river, according toItar-Tass. Evacuationfrom the lowlands in Dubossary, Grigorispol, Slobodzea, Bendery, andTiraspol will become necessary if Ukraine's Novodnestrovsky waterworksdump 4,000-4,500 cubic meters of
TheForeign Ministry of Ukraine assesses as "inadequate" the response ofthe Russian Foreign Ministry to a ban on Russian lawmaker Zatulinentering Ukraine and the recent celebration of the Kyiv Rus OrthodoxBaptism anniversary.According to the MFA press-service, UkraineForeign Ministry's spokesman Vassyl Kyrylych
