August 6, 2023 Ukraine and the World - Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Lithuania has announced the allocation of another package of military aid for Ukraine, which will include launchers for NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems, anti-drone systems and other equipment. This year, Ukraine has already received Mi-8 helicopters, L-70 anti-aircraft guns with ammunition, M113 armored personnel carriers, millions of rounds of ammunition and ammunition for grenade launchers from Lithuania.

Over the past week, Ukraine has received from Germany two WISENT 1 mine clearing tanks, 11 anti-mine plows for T-72 tanks, five mobile reconnaissance complexes SurveilSPIRE, three Vector reconnaissance drones, five mobile antenna-tower complexes and nine vehicles for border guards. Berlin also intends to provide Ukraine with 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, six armored Bergepanzer 2 armored recovery vehicles, seven mobile demining complexes, five SurveilSPIRE mobile reconnaissance complexes and another 18,000 man-portable anti-tank missile systems.

Italy has launched a project to support treatment facilities for victims of the war in Ukraine. The project includes assistance in providing medical care in Ukrainian and Italian hospitals, training for Ukrainian medical staff, as well as assistance in setting up new rehabilitation centers in Ukraine according to the Italian model.

Ambassador of Germany to Ukraine Martin Jaeger visited Ukraine's northern border. “I had the honour to visit the northern border of the country together with Ukrainian border guards. They do a great job protecting the EU's future external border. Germany is proud to support these dedicated and brave men and women”, Jaeger said.

German journalist and publicist Richard Herzinger believes that putin's regime is ready for peace only on its own terms, so hopes for any agreements with it are not just futile, they are dangerous.

“We are considering any steps to protect our territory, protect our citizens, including the complete isolation of belarus, including the complete closure of the border”, said Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Paweł Jablonski. At the same time, the Interior Ministers of Poland and Lithuania have coordinated plans to respond to possible new provocations from belarus.

On the platform for selling computer games Steam, the popularity of the Ukrainian language increased in July. It is ahead of 10 European languages. Currently, Ukrainian is the language of only 0.62% of Steam users, but it has surpassed 10 European languages: Czech, Hungarian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Romanian, Norwegian, Greek and Bulgarian. Ukrainian on Steam came close to Italian, used by 0.65% of users. After the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian gamers began to actively ask game developers and publishers to add the Ukrainian language to their project.

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The international coalition, which supports Ukraine in its counteracting russia’s aggression, is not going to connect rosselkhozbank to the SWIFT payment system, despite russia's blackmail regarding the demand to resume the Grain Deal and will use other methods of political and economic pressure on russia.

Foreign pharmaceutical companies have actually stopped clinical treatment with new medicines in russia: in the first half of the year, only seven medicines were authorized, which is almost 14 times less than a year ago.

The international isolation of the rf has led to the fact that investors freeze and cancel agreements on the development of tourism in russia; hotel rooms have halved, and instead of fashionable hotels, ordinary campsites are being built.

The ministry of digital development of the rf “recommends” government agencies to create additional data transmission channels and ensure redundancy of data processing centers not in moscow, but in other regions of the rf. The “recommendation” of the ministry of digital development on new security requirements needs additional spending of 10% from the public sector. russian business even earlier began to move its storage facilities beyond the Urals.

Large russian businesses, in particular gazprom, uralkhim and rosseti, have appealed to the authorities with a demand to allow them not to publish financial statements in the future (the permit expired on July 1), citing the risks of expanding international sanctions. At the same time, investors do not agree with such a demand of russian companies and refuse to invest “blindly”.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan has proposed to ban goods with russian symbols of aggression against Ukraine – Z, V and the international terrorist organization “wagner”. Besides, the ban may affect goods with the inscriptions “russian army” and “polite people”(masked soldiers of the rf who appeared during the russo-Ukrainian war in Crimea in 2014 carrying weapons and equipment, but wearing unmarked green army uniforms- Transl.).

In leninsky district of minsk, seven men and one woman have been detained. According to the protocols, they “participated in an unauthorized mass event in order to publicly express their disagreement with the conduct of a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, during which they shouted “Glory to Ukraine!”. All of them were convicted and sentenced to 15 days of arrest.

This year, the faculty of journalism of bsu recruits applicants only for budget places. The dean of the faculty aleksei belyaev has said that there is no need for paid tuition, because journalism department fulfills the government’s orders and trains specialists only for state media.