March 10, 2025 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Minister of Defence of France Sébastien Lecornu has announced plans to use the interest from russia's frozen assets to prepare a EUR 195 million military aid package for Ukraine. In particular, the money will be spent on the production of shells and glider bombs for the Mirage 2000.

Ministers of Defence of the United Kingdom, France and Germany have assured Ukraine of further support.

“The Ministry of Administration and Digitization of Poland pays about $50 million a year for Starlink for Ukraine. If we put aside the ethics of threatening a victim of aggression, if SpaceX turns out to be an unreliable supplier, we will have to look for other suppliers,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radosław Sikorski.

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is convinced that a decision on the EU’s role in a future potential peace agreement on Ukraine will be found in close cooperation with the Ukrainian side.

Sweden has allocated about EUR 2 million to develop opportunities for women in Ukraine.

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Chair of the German Parliament’s intelligence oversight committee Konstantin von Notz is calling on Germany and its European allies to create their own intelligence–sharing network.

President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs has called Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania “NATO's litmus test” and has called for a stronger “joint presence” on the borders with russia. According to him, declarations of support are not enough – real actions are needed.

According to Latvia’s Intelligence, during last year's elections in the country, pro-kremlin forces activated the maximum possible number of pro-russian voters, although even then, pro-russian movements failed to increase their influence and begin making political decisions in Lithuania.

According to the russian ministry of finance, toughening of US and British sanctions against russia in January 2025 led to a sharp drop in the aggressor country's revenues from oil and gas exports. As of February 2025, the federal budget received 18 % less taxes from oil and gas companies than in the same period in 2024. deputy prime minister novak has reported to putin that four sectors of the rf’s economy are under threat: construction, coal mining, transport engineering and the automotive industry. They are at risk due to their solvency indicators or the need for loan restructuring.

The rf’s record spending on the military-industrial complex has fueled inflation in the country. The rise in interest rates in response has led to the fact that businesses in russia can no longer service their loan debts.

According to the russian center for macroeconomic analysis and short-term forecasting, every fifth industrial enterprise in russia is at risk – a large number of corporate bankruptcies should be expected in the near future. Experts believe that 2025 will be a “year of belt-tightening” for the russian economy.

According to the International Monetary Fund, economic growth in the rf will slow down almost threefold to 1.5 %.

In February 2025, sales of “maz” trucks manufactured in belarus continued to decline in russia. Sales of those vehicles decreased by 35 % compared to February 2024. Last year, 445 units were sold in this month, while this year the figure was only 290 trucks.

The situation on the market for new trucks in russia has also deteriorated. In February 2025, sales were down by 46 % year-on-year. While in February 2024, 10,430 new trucks were sold, this year – only 5,684.

The rf has launched a register of controlled persons, which includes foreigners who stay in the country for more than three months without a permit. In total, russian authorities have added 685,000 foreign nationals to the register of controlled persons.

The door of the main building of the fsb of the rf has been set on fire in moscow.

As of March 1, 2025, there are 154 female political prisoners in belarusian prisons, and from 2020 to 2024, at least 1,562 had been convicted for political reasons. Thousands more women have faced administrative prosecution. belarusian political prisoners, both men and women, are held in “equally inhumane conditions”, but ignoring the gender aspect can “distort a person’s story and perception of violence,” as well as “aggravate the trauma of a witness or victim”, says the Viasna Human Rights Center. A special type of torture in places of detention is the so-called “naked inspections”, during which women are in especially vulnerable position and may be subjected to sexualized violence.

On March 10, Poland extended the ban on staying in the border area with belarus for 90 days. The relevant resolution was signed by  Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration, Coordinator of Special Services of Poland Tomasz Siemoniak. In the nearly 267 days of the operation of the buffer zone, the number of attempts to illegally cross the Polish-belarusian border has decreased by approximately 46 %. From June 13, 2024 to March 6, 2025, more than 12.7 thousand such attempts were registered. During this period, before the introduction of the buffer zone, there were almost 23.5 thousand of them.