March 31, 2025 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radosław Sikorski believes that the best guarantee of Ukraine’s security is the Ukrainian Army.

Ukraine has reached 100 % alignment with the EU’s foreign policy and defense strategies.

Cyber and Information Warfare Command of the Czech Republic has honored the memory of four Czechs who gave their lives in the fight against russia’s aggression and expansionism in Ukraine.

“Ukrzaliznytsia will receive the last EUR 50 million of the agreed EUR 150 million loan from the European Investment Bank to modernize Ukraine’s railways and use the money for joint projects with the EU under the Connecting Europe Facility 2022 program to develop border infrastructure.

The House of Europe project has announced a grant competition for Ukrainian entrepreneurs. Funding of up to EUR 15 thousand will be provided to creative business owners and managers.

In 2024, for the first time Ukraine became the world leader in net exports of frozen raspberries. This figure surpassed not only Poland, but the long-term market leader, Serbia, as well.

As part of its efforts to open new markets for domestic agricultural exports, Ukraine starts supplying apples to India.

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“It (the rf) has built a brainwashed ideology of bringing back the empire. Therefore, russia under this leadership (putin) and with this state ideology will remain a threat for as long as it has this leadership,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radosław Sikorski.

Due to financial difficulties caused by Western sanctions, the ministry of transport of the rf intends to introduce a new fee for airlines, the proceeds of which should be used to reconstruct airports. The relevant draft law has appeared on the portal of legal acts. After the introduction of the infrastructure fee, each plane ticket will be more expensive by at least 150 rubles.

On Saturday night, a top-class executive car, the aurus senat, made in 2024, burned down in the center of moscow. The car is on the balance sheet of the putin directorate’s garage. The developer of the aurus senat is “nami”, and the manufacturer assembles it at a site in Yelabuga in the Republic of Tatarstan. The websites of official dealers state that the aurus cars are equipped with a fire extinguishing system that is “designed to detect and eliminate fires under the hood and under the bottom of the car.”

The ministry of industry and trade of the rf has prepared an expanded list of cars that are now subject to increased coefficients for paying transport tax. The ministry of industry and trade’s actions mostly concern Chinese cars: Aito, HiPhi, Hongqi, Lixiang, Zeekr, M-Hero and Tank.

“rusolov”’s board of directors has recommended not paying dividends for 2024.

Sky-high interest rates have made mortgages without government support unprofitable. In February, the share of market lending reached its lowest level in the entire monitoring period, at 14 %.

A group of russian contract servicemen and an accountant of a military unit in Primorye and their relatives falsified documents and sent vulnerable residents (orphans, antisocial, poor) who had no close relatives as volunteers to the war, having previously married them and registered the right to receive funeral benefits.

The new list of EU sanctioned companies includes 25 individuals and 7 companies from the rb. Among the people against whom the new package of sanctions was imposed are members of the central election commission, judges, factory directors, employees of lukashenko’s administration, and the head of the “belaya rus” party. Restrictions have been imposed on the following organizations: central election commission of the rb; “integral” oao; belarusskie loterei”; “ridota” ooo; “planar” research and production holdings for precision engineering; “zavod tochnoy elektromekhaniki”; “tsybulka-bel” ooo.

The government of the rb has extended the licensing period for potato exports from the country for another three months.

On March 29, petrol prices in the rb went up again – by 16 kopecks.