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Gas price rise, new mayors and the second round of local elections, frozen, fishing is prohibited. What else will change in the last month of fall.
Gas prices go up
Ukraine’s Naftogaz gas supply company has increased the cost of natural gas for the population by 34.7 percent since November 2020.
As of November 1, the price per cubic meter of gas at the monthly rate will be 6.33 hryvnia including VAT and excluding the cost of gas delivery. In October, the price per cubic meter was 4.7 hryvnia.
Starting in November, the price of gas will also increase at an annual rate. Gas at an annual rate will cost 6.45 hryvnia per cubic meter. The increase amounted to 23 percent: in the October tariff, the price was set at 5.24 hryvnia.
These prices apply only to those consumers who have a gas supply contract with Naftogaz. However, the state-owned company’s rates remain one of the lowest on the market.
Heating is also more expensive
Significantly more consumers are concerned about rising gas prices for heat producers still receiving regulated gas from Naftogaz.
In October, Naftogaz also raised prices for them, more than a thousand hryvnia per thousand cubic meters, or almost a quarter, which is explained by the increase in prices on world markets.
The cost of gas is one of the main components of the price of heat produced by teplokommunenergo companies (more than 80 percent). Therefore, an increase in heating prices can be expected. About this in detail in the material Gas increased by 35%. What bills to expect.
Quarantine zoning
Due to the increase in the incidence of COVID-19 coronavirus infection in the last two weeks, 112 administrative units from 20 regions of Ukraine have been assigned to the “red” zone.
Ternopil and Severodonetsk went from the “red” to the “orange” level of epidemiological danger, at the same time that the regional centers Zhytomyr and Uzhgorod joined the “red” zone.
Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Rivne, Khmelnitsky, Chernigov, Kharkov, Nikolaev, Poltava and Sumy remain in the “red” zone, that is, only 11 regional centers.
Online map of Ukraine’s quarantine zones:
The Ministry of Health has already reported that with 11-15 thousand cases of coronavirus per day, the country can tighten the quarantine and introduce a national blockade. Judging by the existing dynamics, Ukraine will reach this limit only in November.
Now the European countries, one after another, are returning to the blockade, although they did not plan it.
Train tickets
As of November 1, the cost of travel in first class carriages on Intercity + high-speed trains will be reduced to 15 percent in domestic traffic.
Different fare indexing coefficients will be applied, that is, the ticket price depends on the day of the week. The cheapest first class car will cost on Tuesday and the most expensive on Friday.
It is also reported that there is a ten percent discount when purchasing roundtrip tickets.
At the same time, due to the quarantine of 00.01 on November 2, the sale of tickets for the train stations: Beregovoe, Volosyanka-Zakarpatskaya, Veliky Berezny, Kostrino, Perechin, Stavnoe, Uzhgorod, Pologi, Sarata, Kulevcha, Slavuta- 1, Shepetovka is closed.
At these stations, trains will pass without boarding passengers. Disembarkation will take place according to the established order.
The company draws attention to the fact that, in connection with the situation, the train routes have been modified:
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No. 17/18 Mukachevo – Kharkov – Uzhgorod (instead of Uzhgorod – Kharkov – Uzhgorod)
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№ 29/30 Mukachevo – Kharkov – Uzhgorod (instead of Uzhgorod – Kiev – Uzhgorod)
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No. 45/46 Batevo-Pas. – Lisichansk – Uzhgorod (instead of Uzhgorod – Lisichansk – Uzhgorod)
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№ 3/4 Mukachevo – Zaporozhye – Uzhgorod (instead of Uzhgorod – Zaporozhye – Uzhgorod)
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No. 81/82 Chop-Pass – Kiev – Uzhgorod (instead of Uzhgorod – Kiev – Uzhgorod)
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No. 107/108 Chop-Pas. – Odessa – Uzhgorod (instead of Uzhgorod – Odessa – Uzhgorod)
Ukrzaliznytsia does not specify how long the restrictions on ticket sales will apply.
New city mayors and second electoral round
On November 6, the deadline for establishing the results of the 2020 local elections, which took place on October 25, expires. In places where neither candidate got 50 percent plus one vote, a second round will take place. The preliminary date of its celebration is November 15.
However, it is assumed that the second round can take place in different cities on different dates: November 8, 15 or 22. If the election results are contested in individual communities in court, the vote can take place in December.
Road safety islands
In Ukraine, as of November 1, new traffic regulations are being introduced. They relate to the list of standard means used on the road as a “tranquilizer” movement.
In particular, now, in addition to speed bumps, drivers will be slowed down by “islands of safety”, sidewalk extensions, chokers and dividing stripes.
Ukrposhta without days off
Across Ukraine, starting in November, during the “peak season”, 250 branches with a heavy load will switch to a seven-day working schedule. Starting December 1, another 50 branches will move to that time, most of which are located in regional centers. The rest of the departments will work according to the previous schedule.
Changes in the electronic visa application
As of November 1, some rules for issuing electronic visas to enter Ukraine will change. Previously, a 30-day e-Visa for tourism, business and personal travel was issued as a one-time visa, now it is a one-time, two-time visa.
In November, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will increase the list of languages into which the visa application is translated. Chinese and Hindi are added to English, Arabic, and Spanish.
Likewise, the processing time for visa applications will be reduced from nine to one emergency day and three working days as usual.
As of November 1, the fee for a single visa will be $ 20, for a double visa, $ 30, and for expedited processing you will have to pay double the consular fee.
Fishing ban
As of November 1, in most of the reservoirs of Ukraine, the ban on fishing in wintering wells begins. In the vast majority of areas, it will last until the start of spawning in 2021, in some – until the end of winter.
November weather
In November, rains are promised with rare sunny days in Ukraine, a cold snap in the middle of the month, at the end of the month – frosts at night and sleet.
According to the Ukrhydrometeorological Center, the average monthly temperature in November will fluctuate in the range of +1 … + 8. In the Carpathians 0 … + 3.
The amount of precipitation is within the norm for November 37-65 mm. In eastern Ukraine and in the Sumy region, the rainfall will be less than the norm – 28-32 mm. And in Transcarpathia, on the contrary, it will be rainy: up to 110 millimeters of precipitation.
According to Meteoprog, in most regions the temperature will drop to an average of 0 … + 7.
Popular forecaster Vladimir Derkach predicts showers at the beginning of the month. In the middle of the month the weather will improve, the sun will come out, however, the temperature will decrease significantly.
At the end of the month it will rain again, possibly with sleet. Subzero temperatures are expected in the third decade of November at night, occasionally there will be frosts during the day.
New checkpoints in Donbass
Two entry-exit checkpoints are scheduled to open on 10 November in Donbass, Zolote and Schastye.
Representatives of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group said that the repair of the road near Zolote after the bombings over the past year is coming to an end and that the infrastructure at both points is ready.
Receive an inheritance
For several years in a row, government agencies and experts have been forced to refute reports that as of November 1, Ukrainians will not be able to inherit or formalize a donation transaction.
Usually in such messages there is a reference to the government decree on the reform of the scope of the valuation, which was no longer valid in August 2014.
The right to formalize gift and inheritance agreements today is established by the Civil Code of Ukraine.
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