Another beautiful and touching story is accomplished. #IronVillage in #Irpin officially closed today.
Danger: 🧵
Hoow it started. #Irpin had 7000 people whose houses were damaged or destroyed. City mayor @markushyn asked @Ukrzaliznytsia to help his people with temporary housing. And we are always happy to support such stories, even if that's not about our core business.
In 2 weeks we established 5 railway carriages for temporary housing in #Irpin. We paid pretty much attention to minor details. We wanted to give our residents a decent living space. Otherwise we wouldn’t give this village our trademark #iron label :)
We put there several #bikes to give people #mobility freedom. It’s 5 min by bike to the nearest railway station. And 20 min to Kyiv downtown by our city train #KyivCityExpress. I believe in bike+train mobility.
And @smelyansky_igor opened there official @ukrposhta post office box. So people could send and receive mail correspondence right at the #IronVillage. I believe that those who lost their houses should have exactly same life as others. That’s part of our #BarrierFree confession.
On weekends we had morning exercises for the whole #IronVillage with famous Ukrainian tv and sport star @pedan_s.
Our residents had free #Starlink wifi and book corner.
Different creativity classes never left our residents bored.
Best beauty service providers where proud to serve our residents pro bono.
Outdoor cinema was so cozy in the evenings. However, only movies about trains where allowed. Joking :)
And all residents got free daily delivered meals from our partners from @WCKitchen. Our #SupervisoryBoard tested those meals one day and found them delicious! Thanks, @chefjoseandres and all your team.
Sometimes mobile pizza trucks arrived at our #IronVillage and shared fresh pizza with our residents.
And one day famous Ukrainian @ChefBravo gave a cooking class for our residents. It was incredible.
And yes, our #IronVillage was #PetsFriendly. Somehow dogs and cats got along with the rat. I had a special story with this rat. @georg_ismar knows it, but promised to keep it secret.
What happened today? We moved our residents to stationary houses, provided by the city mayor and the Polish government #PolskaPomoc. They would be much better there in the winter. From day one we understood that our #IronVillage is a temporary story and must end one day.
We visited our residents in their new village today, had small farewell party and exchanged our memories about our #IronVillage. Was happy to see our residents in their new home. Also temporary so far, but better established for the winter.
The rat moved as well. Had a lovely time with my friend. You can be proud of me, @georg_ismar :)
My takes from day 1/2 of the @fide_chess General Assembly in Budapest.
Danger: long 🧵 ahead :)
Spoiler: russians will not get back to chess competitions with their bloody flags.
Spoiler 2: russian mangement breaks down @fide_chess.
So, main point.
There is no legal way to vote at GA neither Kyrgyz request nor russian complaint on restoring full rights for russian and belarus federations.
So neither russian nor belarus teams don’t get back to a civilized world under their bloody flags and anthems.
That was officially stated loud from the stage, at the very beginning of GA, by Roberto Rivello, the chairman of the Constitutional Commission of @fide_chess.
I am starting my work at the Ukrainian Chess Federation @uachessfed with a challenging and important battle on the international front.
Yes, it’s again about russia.
And no, we will not let them prevail, as we don’t let it on the battlefield.
#NoBloodyRussianFlagBackInChess
On September 22, a meeting of the @FIDE_chess General Assembly is scheduled in Budapest, where the agenda includes the issue of "restoring the full rights of the national chess federations of russia and belarus."
It’s about the return of the right for the teams of aggressor countries to participate in international competitions under their own flags and anthems. russia and belarus also want to regain the right to host international tournaments under the flag of FIDE on their territory.
534 days ago I was appointed as the Minister. My task was clear: to restart the ministry’s operations according to wartime realities. Today I am stepping down. In 2023, production tripled, and by September 2024, it doubled again.
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Drones, ammunition, armored vehicles, the missile program – current capabilities allow to scale production rapidly, provided there are procurement contracts.
We’ve launched serial production of the full range of mortar and artillery rounds. We manufacture more self-propelled artillery systems than any other country of a free world. We've made significant progress in the missile program.
So, here is the story of defense industrial base conference #DFNC1: US edition in Washington DC, 6-7 Dec.
Danger: long 🧵 ahead!
Looking back to September when we hosted the first-ever defense industry forum #DFNC1 in Kyiv, I must say the US edition is a logical next step. We had 13 US companies visiting Kyiv in September.
Now we brought 38 Ukrainian companies to the US. State-owned, led by @ukroboronprom and @HermanSmetanin personally, and private. B2B dialogue is crucial for further development of joint collaboration.
First time since the beginning of the #RussiaUkraineWar we brought together 67 factory managers of @ukroboronprom, our state-owned defense industry holding.
And here is why it's important.
Danger! Mid-size 🧵 here! :)
Here in Ukraine we work hard on increasing local production of weapons and ammunition. Manufacturing more #IronThings that help our armed forces fight #russians out of my land.
Therefore our factories and factory managers become important. Being neglected for decades, our factories return to life and start growing production volumes.
It happened after 3 people died in front of a closed shelter in Kyiv during another shelling by #russians.
Danger: long 🧵 ahead.
Yes, it's #russsians who are responsible for those deaths. No argue.
But it’s we, who could save those lives. If our shelters were properly functioning. And actually they should on 464th day of the war.
After finishing my day work in the ministry, I started digging in the shelters issue. I read reports and met people. And I must say the issue seems to be complicated.