November 24, 2024 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

“Just as the resilience of the Ukrainian people could not be broken then, today's russian aggressors will not succeed. Ukraine now stands with loyal friends who will support it in every way”, the Czech Foreign Ministry said in a statement on the anniversary of the Holodomor.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Baiba Braže has emphasized that “russia continues what it started 91 year ago- trying to erase Ukrainian nation from the Earth. Then via manmade famine, today with rockets, missiles, bombs, murders, rape, attacks on ports, energy facilities”, said Braže.

“Today, we remember the Holodomor, the destruction by hunger of more than six million people in Ukraine between 1932 and 1933 under stalin’s orders”, said Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.

President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola has pointed out that “Today Europe joins the people of Ukraine to remember and pay tribute to the millions of victims of the Holodomor”. Roberta Metsola has also has stated that she supports the initiative to transfer Taurus cruise missiles from Germany to Ukraine.

As part of a long-term agreement, Lithuania will finance the production of Ukrainian long-range weapons; the first tranche of EUR 10 million has already been agreed upon.

Minister of Defence of the Netherlands Ruben Brekelmans has called russia's use of the new missile another escalatory step, not a desire to seek peace on the part of the rf.

“As much as I would like to believe we can negotiate with a tyrant, I suspect we may be deceiving ourselves... I wish I could say there’s an easy way out, there’s not”, US Senator Mike Rounds, a Republican, commented on the prospects for negotiations with the rf.

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Ukraine and the Government of Japan have handed over important energy equipment to Kharkiv and Odesa to help meet the needs of critical infrastructure in those cities in the face of russia’s attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

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Chief of the EU Migration Service Ylva Johansson has said that the European Union is likely to tighten restrictions on issuing visas to russians because the latter pose a serious threat to European security when traveling through the Schengen zone.

The Czech Republic intends to stop consuming russian oil by July 2025, said Zdenek Dundr, Operations Director of the State pipeline company MERO.

British bank HSBC, the country's largest in terms of assets, stops accepting payments from the rf and the rb. The ban will apply to private clients and is imposed on any transactions from the two countries. The decision was made the day after the United States tightened financial sanctions against russia.

For the first time since March 24, 2022, the central bank of the rf has set the official exchange rate at 102.58 rubles for a US dollar. russian experts admit that in the coming weeks the dollar may reach 105 rubles/$ and the current regime will have to take extraordinary measures to stabilize the foreign exchange market.

russia’s gas company “novatek” has significantly reduced the production process at the only liquefied gas module manufacturing plant in the rf in belokamenka.

The cost of housing repairs in the rf has risen by 11.3% since the beginning of 2024, with the largest increase in the cost of dry building mixtures – in some regions by more than 21%. The cost of repairs in moscow increased by 12% to RUB 12 thousand for a square meter.

“sberbank” of the rf has advised russian companies to take out loans in the rb, where it has a subsidiary bank and interest rates are lower.

In 2020, there were approximately 80 thousand vacancies in the rb’s economy. At the beginning of this year, the number of vacancies was already 130 thousand, by October it grew to 160 thousand, and in November – to 170 thousand.

Every year, 300-400 people out of 8- 10 thousand people employed in the economy leave the average district of the rb. The majority leave with their families, so the outflow of population will be even higher and the district will lose 4-5% of its employees every year.