"Token of Good Will": Russian Army abandons Schlageninsel
Created: 06/30/2022, 11:24 am
By: Alexander Eser-Ruperti, Felix Busjaeger
This satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows an overview of Snake Island in the Black Sea on June 21, 2022. The tower at the southern end of the island is damaged and vegetation burned in several places.
Now Russia is said to have given up the island.
© Uncredited/Maxar Technologies/AP/dpa
Apparently, Snake Island in the Black Sea is back under Ukraine's control.
Exact backgrounds are unclear.
News from June 30th in the live ticker.
Snake Island
under the control of
Ukraine
: Apparently the Russian army has withdrawn.
Ukraine speaks of a conquest.
Expert opinion
on
Corona rules
: The German Council of Experts has postponed an expert opinion on the previous Corona rules that was expected today.
Citizen tests
are no longer
free
: From today, rapid corona tests, with a few exceptions, will incur a deductible of three euros.
The political ticker is continuously updated.
Withdrawal:
Apparently there is movement in the Ukraine war.
As reported on Thursday, the Russian army claims it has voluntarily withdrawn from the previously conquered Snake Island in the Black Sea.
Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the move was intended to show Russia that it would not impede the export of grain and agricultural products from Ukraine.
"On June 30, as a show of goodwill, Russian forces completed their assigned tasks on Snake Island."
The Ukrainian army, on the other hand, spoke of recapturing Snake Island in the Black Sea.
"There are no more Russians on Snake Island.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted a brilliant operation," said Chief of General Staff Andrei Yermak.
The information provided by both warring parties could not be independently verified.
Report on Corona rules: Council of Experts postpones assessment to Friday
Deadline missed
: The report of the German government's council of experts on the previous corona rules, which is expected for today, comes a day later than expected.
The results should now be public on Friday, according to a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Health.
The spokesman also stated that they wanted to draw conclusions for further autumn measures "as soon as possible", which is reported by the
mirror
, among others .
An expert opinion on the evaluation of previous corona rules is postponed by one day.
Based on the evaluation, new measures should be discussed - they could also include an extended mask requirement.
(icon image).
© Federico Gambarini/dpa
The traffic light would like to use the report to assess whether new corona measures are necessary or not.
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) is also pushing for a quick clarification of this question.
So far, the FDP in the coalition is slowing down the discussion with reference to the pending report.
In Germany, the corona subtype Omicron BA.5 in particular is currently responsible for increasing case numbers.
More money for politicians: salary increase for Chancellor Olaf Scholz
Salaries:
Not only does the deadline for the new property tax 2022 start on July 1st and many changes to the Hartz IV bonus, taxes and pensions come into force, but the salaries of politicians in the German Bundestag will also be increased.
As the image reports, this also affects many members of the federal government who hold mandates.
The top earner is Olaf Scholz (SPD).
The Federal Chancellor, who described himself as rich, will earn 30,139.81 euros per month in the future.
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New test regulation: Corona citizen tests should cost 3 euros from today
Corona Test Ordinance
: After every citizen could previously undergo a free corona antigen rapid test once a week, this is no longer possible from today.
Today, June 30, 2022, the previous Corona test regulation ends: From now on, new Corona rules apply, according to which a deductible of three euros per Corona test is due.
This does not apply to everyone, free citizen tests should continue to be available for the following groups of people, as
Focus
reports: people who cannot be vaccinated, children up to five years of age, pregnant women in the first trimester, visitors to nursing homes and hospitals, members of the household of infected people, People with corona symptoms and residents of integration assistance facilities.
9-euro ticket: 21 million tickets sold
Discounted ticket
: According to current figures, the 9-euro ticket from the 2022 relief package can be booked as a complete success.
According to the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV), around 21 million special tickets were sold nationwide in the first month of validity for the 9-euro ticket.
According to
dpa
, VDV President Ingo Wortmann explained : “Together with the approximately ten million subscribers who automatically receive the discounted ticket, the number of 30 million tickets per month previously calculated by the industry has not only been reached, but even slightly exceeded become."
Recently, therefore, there have been repeated calls for the extension of the offer.
Lower Saxony's Minister of Transport, Bernd Althusmann (CDU), is also calling for a permanently cheap Germany ticket.
In this context, the consumer advice centers recently suggested a 29-euro ticket for local transport.
Hartz IV Corona bonus: It will be paid out from July
One-off special payment
: In July, which begins tomorrow, the 200 instead of 100 euros Corona bonus for Hartz IV recipients will also come. After the traffic light had agreed on the bonus from the 2022 relief package, the so-called one-off payment will now be paid out.
Hartz IV recipients will receive a one-time Hartz IV Corona bonus of 200 euros in July, which is intended to cushion the burden of the pandemic.
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