May 4, 2025 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

The US Department of State has approved the potential sale of F-16 training and sustainment, along with related equipment, to Ukraine for $310 million.

Ukraine intends to hold a meeting of national security advisors with the participation of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, which play a leading role in the “peace process” with the rf.

“putin has stalled and hampered discussions for long enough. The world is losing patience,” UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and US Vice President J.D. Vance reiterated during a joint conversation that they “reaffirmed our shared desire for an end to russia’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine and our commitment to a lasting peace”.

On May 5, Ukrainian military servicemen will take part in a military parade in the United Kingdom to mark the 80th anniversary of the Victory over Nazism.

EU Ambassador to Ukraine Katarina Mathernova called Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna’s death in russian custody one of russia’s “most heinous war crimes”.

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The United States has begun sharing classified intelligence on russia’s space activities with the Five Eyes allies – the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Kazakhstan’s authorities have banned four current members of the russian state duma and one former russian parliamentarian from entering the country. The reason for this was the public spreading by these individuals of offensive and hostile statements against Kazakhstan and its leadership. The blacklist includes deputy speaker of the state duma petr tolstoy, first Deputy chairman of the duma committee on international affairs vyacheslav nikonov, parliament members from the united russia party yevgeny fedorov and konstantin zatulin, as well as head of rossotrudnichestvo and former mp yevgeny primakov.

Minister of National Defence of Poland Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has announced the launch of a new military operation to strengthen security and control over the airspace in the Baltic region in response to russia’s provocations.

Authorities of Romania did not allow a correspondent of the russian propaganda TV channel rt to enter the country. He had allegedly arrived to cover the presidential election.

Head of the Azerbaijan Parliament’s Commission on countering hybrid threats Ramid Namazov claims that russia was behind the February 2025 cyberattack on the country.

Economic instability in russia has increased the threat of a massive “outflow of depositors” from banks, according to the April report by the center for macroeconomic analysis and short-term forecasting. The center’s early warning system, based on economic indicators, assesses the level of risk: below 0.3 – as low, from 0.3 to 0.5 – as  medium. In February, the risk was 0.27, but in April it rose to 0.6, which is above the critical level. Similar indicators have been observed only four times in recent years: in 2014, 2018, 2020, and 2022, all periods of acute foreign economic shocks.

In Kursk, Belgorod, Bryansk and Lipetsk regions of russia, parades for May 9 are being canceled.

roskomnadzor demands that one of russia’s telegram channels delete a post about a Krasnodar rapper who committed suicide because of mobilization.

The negative balance of foreign trade in goods between belarus and non-CIS countries increased by 45.6 % over the year.

Intensified checks and detentions continue at the rb’s borders with EU countries. People who were subjected to political administrative persecution after 2020 are under special control.

Following potatoes, onions disappeared from belarusian shops.