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Kamyshin said on July 10, as cited by Hromadske news outlet.
Germany’s Rheinmetall to build, repair tanks in Ukraine. The German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall will open an armored vehicle plant in Ukraine within the next 12 weeks, the company's CEO Armin Papperger told CNN in an interview published on July 10.
Ukraine works to extend US Lend-Lease for another year. Ukrainian diplomats are actively working with U.S. Congress to extend the Lend-Lease Act for another year, Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova said on television on July 10.
The first Ukrainian demining machine is ready for mass production. The first piece of domestic demining equipment, which was developed by a Kharkiv manufacturer, has passed certification. The manufacturing company received a certificate and declaration of conformity, which allows it to establish production and use these machines to demine territory, said the Minister of Economy, Yulia Svyridenko. Currently, Ukrainian manufacturers can produce two such machines every month. To speed up demining, the Ukrainian government is working to establish the production of necessary foreign equipment in Ukraine. In particular, the Croatian corporation DOK-ING and Danish HYDREMA will establish production of demining equipment in the coming months. Ukrainian and foreign manufacturers have already signed a relevant memorandum.
2.3 Polls & Sociology
The biggest problem in Ukraine's reconstruction will not be investment attraction but lack of labour resources. According to the Ministry of Economy estimates, an additional 4.5mn people need to be attracted to the Ukrainian labour market over the next decade. Without this, it is impossible to successfully rebuild the country and ensure the growth of the national economy, at least within the minimum required 7% per year. The war has exacerbated problems related to the lack of qualified personnel and certain sectoral and regional imbalances. The main challenge is the departure of millions of Ukrainians abroad due to mobilization and traditional labour migration. At the same time, the latest polls indicate that almost half of the refugees will not return home after the victory. And the longer the war lasts, the faster the percentage of those who plan to settle in a new place grows permanently. According to the UN, approximately 8mn Ukrainians have registered as refugees worldwide since the war began. Without an effective state policy for returning migrants, Ukraine may lose up to $113B of GDP over the next ten years.
Most Ukrainians not ready to refuse NATO accession in exchange for immediate peace. Seventy-six percent of Ukrainians consider it unacceptable for the country to withhold its NATO membership bid "as a price for peace," according to recent polls conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).
The Razumkov Centre, a Ukrainian think tank, recently conducted a
Over a half of respondents (52%) believed that the country is moving in the right direction. 43% said that Ukraine will be able to overcome existing difficulties within the next couple of years, and another 42% believe that it will be able to do so in the longer term. 6% of respondents believe that the country won’t be able to resolve these issues.
face-to-face survey to assess citizens’ trust in social institutions and
authorities. The organisation surveyed 2,017 people over the age of 18 across
government-controlled territories of Ukraine.
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