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SMART-HOLDING and FOZZY GROUP have agreed on implementation of a joint project to restore the full service of Amstor retail chain. It is intended to cover the stores located outside the ATO (anti-terrorist operation) area. The food stores will be working under Silpo brand, while the shopping centres will preserve their original Amstor name.

Presentation of the virtual educational platform e-Space – Ukraine’s first remote training and development platform for children unable to attend educational establishments or having limited access to education – shall take place on 22 June at the Kyiv Book House (Lva Tolstogo street, 11/61). Vadim Novinsky's International Charitable Foundation in Honour of Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God acted as the project owner and initiator.

In the course of 2014 and 2015, the International Charitable Foundation in Honor of Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God allocated financial aid to 74 families of servicemen from Nikolaev and Kherson regions who died performing their military duty in the area of the antiterrorist operation. The targeted assistance of UAH 50 thousand, to a total of UAH 3.7 million, was provided to relatives of servicemen killed during the Ilovaisk operation and fighting for the Donetsk airport.

Since June 2014, the International Charitable Foundation in Honor of Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God, established at the initiative of businessman Vadim Novinsky, has allocated more than UAH 33 million in support of internally displaced people from ATO (antiterrorist operation) area, as well as for direct humanitarian aid to the inhabitants of the cities located in the epicenter of the conflict.

Chernomorsky Shipbuilding Yard (Nikolaev) has received a new order from Concord Shipbuilding Corporation to recondition its ALMERIA ship. The respective contract to UAH 3.5 million was signed in April 2015.

A number of mass media have published misleading information on the economic activities of Ochakov Port recently. In particular, these publications referred to the enterprise's alleged involvement in the illegal schemes of oil products’ import to the customs territory of Ukraine. To disprove those allegations, Ochakov Port officially announces that this information is not true.

Mass media have been spreading misleading information lately that Smart-Holding owns a stake in or exercises control over Nikolaev Okean Shipyard (Okean NSZ) in Nikolaev City. In connection with these allegations, Smart-Holding officially announces that since 2012 the company has been out of any relation to the shipyard.

Smart-Holding, the primary shareholder of Amstor Group, resumed operation of the retailer’s second store in Kiev (Obolonskiy district, Sklyarenko street 7B). So far, two out of three Amstor hypermarkets in the capital city have been re-opened.

Metinvest B.V., the parent company of a vertically integrated group of steel and mining companies (jointly referred to as “Metinvest” or “the Group”), today announced its auditedIFRS consolidated financial statements for the 12 months ended 31 December 2014.