March 20, 2023 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

3/20/2023
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“Good to see this life-saving initiative extended another 120 days to keep Ukrainian grain flowing around the world”, US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink welcomed the extension of the “grain deal”.

Minister of Justice of the FRG Marco Buschmann has announced that he will execute the warrant for putin's arrest if he sets foot on German soil.

NATO proposes to strengthen the Alliance’s eastern borders with the russian federation by concentrating equipment and military contingent of up to 300 thousand troops.

Poland's Ambassador to France Jan Emeryk Rościszewski has said that “It is not NATO, Poland or Slovakia that are mounting ever more pressure, but russia, which has invaded Ukraine. russia, which is seizing its territories. russia, which is killing its people. And russia, which is abducting Ukrainian children”. “Therefore, either Ukraine will defend its independence today, or we will have to enter this conflict. Because our main values, which were the basis of our civilization and our culture will be threatened. Therefore, we will have no choice but to enter the conflict”.

The Italian Ministry of Defense has confirmed that 20 Ukrainian servicemen were trained at a military base in the municipality of Sabaudia. They mastered using the SAMP-T air defense system.

Minister of Defence of Estonia Hanno Pevkur has said that after another package of military support, the country has already trained 600 Ukrainian servicemen. In Estonia, three cycles of training for the Ukrainian military have already been conducted, each time one company was trained, Pevkur said. Besides, doctors, snipers and military personnel of some other specialties were trained here. According to the Minister, the mentality of the russian army has not changed much over the past hundred years, since it used the same tactics of incredible atrocities and war crimes. “We all understand that Ukraine is fighting not only for itself and for Ukrainian people. They are fighting for a free world and a world based on rules. That is why we must help Ukraine as much as we can”, Hanno Pevkur said.

Moldova will impose restrictive measures against about 25 people, including russian citizens involved in the invasion of Ukraine. “This is mainly a ban on entering Moldova, freezing bank accounts or assets of those persons who are somehow involved in the aggression against Ukraine”, said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova Nicu Popescu.

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russia has intensified political blackmail over possible famine in some countries of the world, which it itself provoked by aggression against Ukraine. In particular, permanent representative of russia to the United Nations nebenzya put forward russian conditions for the continuation of the grain agreement in the future: to reconnect rosselkhozbank to the SWIFT international payment system, to resume the supply of agricultural machinery and spare parts for it to russia, to lift restrictions on insurance and access to foreign ports for russian ships and cargo, to resume the supply of ammonia by the togliatti-Odesa pipeline, to unblock accounts and allow financial activities of russian fertilizer producers. That is, everything that has already had an extremely critical impact on the russian economy and its military potential.

The russian crisis has led to an extremely cautious attitude of the population of the rf to their money. 26% of respondents said they keep their savings in cash or, come the chance, want to buy real estate, 23% – keep money on bank deposits. Only 6% of russians invest in stocks and securities, 8% of respondents invest in starting a business.

The suspension of payments through the App Store and Google Play services has led to a 72% reduction in domestic gaming payments.

Over the past two months, taxi services in the rf have risen in price by an average of 13 %.

As of January 2022, in the colonies of russia, there were up to 465 thousand prisoners, as of January 2023 – up to 433 thousand. The wagner pmc, in addition to prisoners, is going to attract another 30 thousand people by the middle of May.

In the village of bakinskaya, near the city of krasny klyuch of the krasnodar territory, the occupiers from the wagner pmc, who died in the war in Ukraine, were buried. The burial took place despite a protest from city officials, who said wagnerians' graves had already occupied more than 500 sites out of 780 allocated to city residents in the cemetery.

In schools in russia, the African languages of Swahili and Amharic are beginning to be taught as additional ones.

In the stavropol territory of the rf, the police is checking the kindergarten for LGBT propaganda through the colored benches in the institution.

Mayor of Washington Muriel Bowser has officially declared March 25, 2023 the Day of Freedom of belarus. “Supporting independence, democracy and freedom in belarus is in line with our values of protecting human rights, democratic self-government and respecting the right to self-determination”, Bowser said.