Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

The lower house of the Parliament of the FRG, the Bundestag, has approved the federal budget for 2026. Ukraine is to receive EUR 11.5 billion in aid from the approved budget for artillery, drones, armored vehicles, and other equipment.

Chair of the Norwegian Parliament’s International Affairs and Defense Committee Ine Eriksen Søreide believes that Norway will maintain its aid to Ukraine at the current level after 2026.

“As long as moscow speaks the language of missiles, drones, and blood – as it did last night – any proposal for peace sounds like a farce. I am outraged and shocked by russia’s actions. Is this how they want to reach an agreement? Or are they just pretending? Are killings and attacks more characteristic of them?” –  Ambassador  of the EU to Ukraine Katarina Mathernova condemned the massive attack on Ukrainian cities on November 28-29.

“russia continues its campaign to terrorize Ukrainians, destroy their hopes, and undermine their resilience. In response, the aggressor must face the strongest possible pressure, and support for the victim must only increase,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Margus Tsahkna after the occupiers’ another massive strike on Ukraine on the night of November 29.

“This is preparation for the next round of peace talks and a greeting from the kremlin butcher to the US delegates,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Baiba Braže regarding russia’s massive attack on Ukraine on the night of November 29.

“It is obvious that russia does not want peace. The parts of the world that still believe in the rules based world order must immediately increase the support to Ukraine and put more pressure on russia,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Maria Malmer Stenergard regarding russia’s night attack on Ukraine on November 29.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radosław Sikorski considers the news of the arrest of new suspected russian agents to be proof that Poland made the right decision in closing the russian consulate in Gdańsk. “russia made a criminal mistake by invading Ukraine. Now it cannot get out of this... We must maintain national solidarity. Ukraine is not letting putin’s tanks reach our border, and as long as Ukraine is fighting, putin cannot threaten Poland or other NATO countries. So I ask for solidarity with the victim of aggression, our Ukrainian neighbors,” said Sikorski.

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russia’s largest oil company, “Rosneft”,  has reduced its net profit for shareholders for the first nine months of 2025 by 70 % compared to the previous year.

The Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Rosmorport” has abandoned the construction of two Project 23620 Icebreaker 7 icebreakers at the Onega Shipyard. The decision was due to a nearly twofold increase in the cost of the work after an attempt to replace imported equipment with russian equivalents.

roskomnadzor has warned that the  WhatsApp messenger may be completely blocked in russia.

The war with Ukraine has brought russia an “army of disabled people” the size of the population of Pskov or Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The total number of disabled people in the country increased by 190,000 in 2023-24.

In Saratov, a monument to victims of domestic violence was demolished with the wording “due to the imposition of European values,  alien to our mentality”.

The UN has recognized the persecution for displaying white-red-white flags in belarus as a human rights violation.

In 2025, countries – neighbours of the EU saw a record number of attempts to illegally cross the border into their territory from belarus over the past four years. From January 1 to November 26, 42,187 attempts were registered, compared to 36,291 for the whole of 2024, 42,078 – for 2023, and 32,196 f – or 2022.

Poland has extended restrictions on flights along the border with belarus.

In the global ranking by academic freedom index, belarus is in fourth place from the bottom (out of 179 countries). Only Myanmar, Eritrea, and North Korea rank lower. This index reached its maximum value (0.6) in belarus in 1993 and has dropped to 0.03 during lukashenko's 30 years in power.