April 6, 2025 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

The Government of Norway has decided to increase aid to Ukraine in 2025 by 50 billion Norwegian kroner ($4.6 billion), bringing its total annual volume to 85 billion kroner ($7.8 billion).

“Another russian attack, but you never get used to it. That is why we must accelerate support for Ukraine,” – Minister of Defence of the Netherlands Ruben Brekelmans expressed his condolences to the families of those who were killed as a result of the rf’s missile attack on a residential area of Kryvyi Rih.

“Our thoughts are with the families of the victims and with those who are defending their country from russian terror. Czechia stands with you,” – Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský condemned the russian ballistic missile strike on the center of Kryvyi Rih.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Kęstutis Budris condemned the rf’s missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.

“russia continues to destroy Ukraine, it is not interested in peace,” said High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas, regarding the russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih.

“russia seeks war, not peace, and the attacks against civilians, including children are brutal proof of it,” Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Margus Tsakhna said after russia’s missile attack on Kryvyi Rih.

Special Representative of the French President on Economic Aid and Recovery of Ukraine Pierre Elbron has said that the country’s business demonstrates a high interest in implementing projects to restore Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Türkiye Hakan Fidan believes that any potential peace agreement between Ukraine and russia would be “difficult to digest” but would still be better than more death and destruction.

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The US Secretary of State has denied plans to resume direct flights with russia.

NATO countries are ready to respond to joint russian – belarusian military exercise “zapad” (“West”– Transl.), which will take place in the autumn of 2025. This was stated by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Kęstutis Budrys. He pointed out that the joint military exercise of the rf and the rb “will definitely not go unnoticed.”

The russian stock market has experienced its worst week in two and a half years amid Donald Trump’s decision to impose a record import duty in 100 years and the collapse in oil prices, which were hit by the decision of OPEC+ countries to sharply increase production. In two days, the capitalization of the stock market of the moscow exchange fell by 2 trillion rubles: at the end of trading on Wednesday it was 55.04 trillion rubles, and by Friday evening it was already 53.02 trillion. The moscow exchange index, which includes the securities of 43 largest companies, lost 8.05 % at the end of the week, showing the worst result since the end of September 2022, when the market was gripped by panic due to mobilization. According to the results of trading on Friday, shares of sberbank fell by 5.2 %, those of gazprom – by 4.9 %, of vtb – by 6 %, of rosneft – by 3.9 %, of lukoil – by 4.6 %. mechel’s securities lost more than 7 %, aeroflot’s quotations fell by 4.8 %, and those of novatek – by 5.4 %.

There are more and more signs of cooling of the russian economy: the dynamics of output is stagnating, the consumer demand is slowing down, and the mood of enterprises is deteriorating.

For the first time in almost a year and a half, the government of the rf will start selling foreign currency from the russian national welfare fund every day to compensate for the failure of oil and gas budget revenues, which fell by almost 20 % in February and March.

In 2024, konstantin malofeev, close to the kremlin orthodox oligarch and sponsor of the “russian spring”, lost 600 million rubles due to Western sanctions – such losses were suffered by his “tsargrad” media holding.

The central bank of russia’s quick payment and online payment system has crashed for the second time in two weeks, with outages across russia.

russian regional authorities, together with the branches of the pension fund, will spend about 600 million rubles on organizing the recreation of 13.5 thousand children in Anapa, the Black Sea resort which was hit hardest by the oil spill after the tanker accident in the Kerch Strait in December 2024.

The workers of the “inskaya” mine in Kemerovo region of the rf were not paid their salary arrears, instead, the authorities advised them to go to war against Ukraine as an alternative.

Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk has urged potential illegal migrants not to believe lukashenko and putin. “Don't believe lukashenko, don't believe putin,” Tusk said. – “They lie to you when they say that this is the way into Europe. You won’t apply for asylum here anymore. But above all, you won’t cross the Polish border illegally.”

The Latvian National Union party proposes to completely ban trade in belarusian and russian goods in the country.

Since 2020, more than 6,830 people in belarus have been convicted in politically motivated criminal cases, including 33 who were sent for compulsory psychiatric treatment. Despite the release of some political prisoners after serving their sentences and pardons, their number remains extremely high. As of April 4, 2025, there are 1,205 political prisoners in prisons in belarus.

In 2024, 3,155 people were deprived of their parental rights in belarus, which is by 28.7 % more than in 2021. Many of the decisions were politically motivated.