April 3, 2025 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

The Government of Latvia has transferred another 1,500 combat UAVs to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As part of the Ukraine Facility program, the Czech Republic is ready to invest $100 million in modernization of 13 hospitals in seven regions of Ukraine.

Finland has handed over to Ukraine nine ambulances and humanitarian cargo from Finnish non-governmental organizations.

On April 10, on the initiative of the United Kingdom and France, Ministers of Defence of the so-called “Coalition of the Determined” will hold a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

On April 11, the United Kingdom and Germany will convene meetings of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Kęstutis Budrys considers 2030 to be the latest date for Ukraine’s accession to the EU. “We have to set the deadline and count clockwise, count it back with all the other deadlines for the important decisions to be made,” he said.

Foreign Minister of Germany Annalena Baerbock has said that a potential agreement on rare earth metals between the United States and Ukraine must comply with European law.

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The US President Administration considers imposing tough sanctions on russia. The restrictions are intended to affect the “shadow fleet” of the rf.

Half of the US Senate – 25 republicans and 25 Democrats – on Tuesday submitted a bipartisan bill, which provides for sanction pressure on russia if moscow hinders a peaceful settlement of the russian-Ukrainian war. The measures offered include barrier duties of 500 % for goods imported into the United States from countries that buy russian oil, gas and uranium. “The dominant view in the United States Senate is that russia is the aggressor and that this horrific war and putin’s aggression must end now and be deterred in the future,” reads the joint statement.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany Annalena Baerbock has ruled out the possibility of restarting the Nord Stream-2 against the background of speculations regarding the convergence of US and russian positions. “And of course, there will be no such economic projects because they are dangerous to our security,” said Baerbock.

Alexandru Muraru, the head of Romania’s Parliamentary Committee on Oversight of Intelligence Services, sees “concrete risks” of russia’s interference in elections in his country and other European countries.

The UK authorities have announced that all individuals and companies working for the russian state in the country will have to register on a special list. russia will be included in the “strictest” category of the foreign influence registration system. This will mean that anyone who is commissioned by the russian government or a related organization to carry out any activity in the UK will have to declare their work – otherwise they will face five years in prison. Thus, the rf will become the second country after iran to be included in the category of states that pose a “serious threat to national security” of the United Kingdom.

The International Sailing Federation (World Sailing) has extended the ban on russian athletes’ participation in international tournaments under the auspices of the Organization.

The French radio company NRJ has announced that it will soon terminate its agreement with “gazprom-media”, which gives the right to use the radio station’s brand. The reason for this is broadcasting in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk region.

Despite the russian authorities’ statements about a large number of companies eager to return to russia from “unfriendly” countries, none of them has applied so far to resume work in the russian market. “We still have no specific applications on this topic,” said deputy minister of finance ivan chebeskov. Moreover, he said, this week, the government considered applications of four foreign companies wishing to leave russia. He pointed out that the flow of applications from organizations that want to leave the country does not stop.

The central bank of the rf does not rule out raising the key policy rate if inflation slows down too slowly.

In the first quarter of 2025, sales of lada cars in russia decreased by 16.8 % year-on-year to 76.2 thousand units. In March, sales also showed a drop by 33 %, to 28.7 thousand units.

“avroid”, a developer of applications for the russian operating system “avrora”, is in a downtime. The company has suspended its work until the end of June due to a deterioration in its financial condition caused by poor demand for devices with the russian OS, which was positioned as an “Android killer”.

Due to the shortage of labour, the government of the rf has approved a twofold increase in overtime hours for russians.

In russia, it is necessary to introduce an additional tax for men aged 25 to 45 who do not have children, – said the agrarian committee of the state duma. According to the committee, there are 30 million such citizens in the country.

On March 29, a russian airline plane flying from Saratov to moscow’s sheremetyevo airport sent a distress signal immediately after takeoff due to problems with the cabin pressurisation. On the same day, a rossiya airlines sukhoi superjet 100 (ssj-100) flying from st. petersburg to moscow’s vnukovo airport displayed phantom marks on its TCAS instrument after takeoff in pulkovo harbor.

In January-February of this year, the foreign trade turnover of the rb amounted to $12 billion 542.7 million. At the same time, exports amounted to $5 billion 760 million, and imports – by $1 billion 22.7 million more. In January-February 2024, the negative trade balance was $395.1 million. Exports fell by 8.3 %, while imports increased by 1.6 % compared to the same period last year.

belarusians owe banks almost RUB 27 billion. Over the year, the debt on consumer loans doubled, while on real estate loans it increased by 36 %.

Information on the schedule of court proceedings on the website of the supreme court of the rb is no longer available to belorusians and others.