August 29, 2024 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

“The draft budget for next year provides for four billion euros in bilateral military support for Ukraine. Additionally, we, together with the G7 countries, will provide Ukraine with a $50 billion loan”, said Chancellor of the FRG Olaf Scholz.

President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel believes that there is no more important task in Czechia’s foreign and security policy today than further support for Ukraine. “Stopping and, above all, defeating russia’s aggression is in our vital interests”, he emphasized.

Spain has already trained five thousand Ukrainian military servicemen.

A group of Lithuanian NGOs and media outlets has announced that they are sending to Ukraine the last of more than 1,100 anti-drone systems purchased with donor funds (EUR 8 million) as part of the Radarom campaign.

With the support of Lithuania, three more Ukrainian schools will receive modern shelters.

Serbia has donated five thousand laptops and tablets for Ukrainian schoolchildren.

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Representatives of the security services of Norway, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Iceland have warned of a potential russian sabotage threat to energy facilities in Norway, which is now Europe's largest supplier of natural gas.

In Krakow, Poland, two members of the “wagner” international criminal organization will be tried on charges of participating in an international armed group and working for foreign intelligence.

Since the beginning of August, banks in the United Arab Emirates have been blocking payments for electronic components and consumer electronics from russian companies due to the risk of secondary sanctions from the United States.

In July, the russian bank “trust” suffered the largest losses in the rf – 4.6 billion rubles, and another systemically important bank “sovcombank” – 2.1 billion rubles.

In the first half of the year, the profit of the russian spb exchange decreased by 17.5% compared to the same period last year, to RUB 511.5 million. Revenues from services and commissions decreased by 85.6% to RUB 116.2 million due to US sanctions that halted trading in foreign securities.

On August 28, the moscow stock exchange index dropped by 1.62% to 2,686.2 points, the value of segezha group shares lost 19.11%, falling to 1,342 rubles, mechel – 5.5% to 100.6 rubles, sberbank – 0.31% to 259.7 rubles, novatek – 2.19% to 964.8 rubles, lukoil – 1.56% to 6,424.5 rubles.

On August 28, shares of st. petersburg stock exchange at the moscow exchange fell by 3.31% to 113.9 rubles per bond.

On August 28, at the st. petersburg international mercantile exchange, wholesale prices for AI-92 petrol increased by 658 rubles per ton (+ 1.13%) compared to the previous trading day, for AI-95 – by 180 rubles per ton (+ 0.25%), and  for diesel fuel – by 69 rubles per ton (+ 0.11%).

After the beginning of the full-scale russia’s aggression against Ukraine in 2022, the number of foreign labor migrants (85% of all migrants in russia) from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan who are required to register for migration registration decreased by 1 million people.

The ministry of foreign affairs of the rb has said that the rb’s consulates have stopped renewing passports of belarusians abroad, allegedly because of Western sanctions – “the documents cannot be delivered to the consulate in time”.

The rb is not able to provide itself with pasta, so it is among the three largest buyers of this product from the rf. The main importers from the rf are Kazakhstan, which accounts for 19.5% of supplies, the rb – 19.4%, and Turkmenistan – 13.8%. Starting August 31, the rb will not be allowed to import pasta from so-called unfriendly countries.

The average nominal gross salary (before taxes) of employees of state-financed organizations in July decreased by 39.1 rubles, or 2.1%, compared to June, as reported by belstat.