November 3, 2022 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced a new package of $55 million to help Ukraine repair and support the operation of heating infrastructure in 19 regions of Ukraine. Also, the State Department has allocated $47.6 million to the American company Tetra Tech, Inc. to provide assistance to Ukraine in demining the territory.

The United States will make every effort to stop the supply of weapons by iran to the russian federation, said Spokesperson for the United States Department of State Ned Price. “We are concerned that russia may also seek to acquire advanced weapons from iran, such as surface-to-surface missiles, which will almost certainly be used in the war against Ukraine”, Price said. The State Department Spokesperson added that the United States will resolutely impose all sanctions on the russian and iranian arms trade “to make it more difficult for iran to sell arms to russia”.

The United States has accused North Korea of ​​secretly supplying russia with a large number of artillery shells for use in the war against Ukraine. To hide the supply, the DPRK is trying to create the impression that it is sending ammunition to the countries of the Middle East or North Africa. US officials say the secret supply of ammunition from North Korea, along with drones and other weapons which russia is buying from iran, is further evidence that even moscow's conventional artillery arsenals have been depleted during eight months of fighting.

On November 2, the Ministries of Economy and Energy and Foreign Affairs of Switzerland decided to join the EU sanctions against iran over its supplying drones to russia. The Swiss Federal Council emphasizes that it has already introduced far-reaching sanctions against iran, including financial, tourism and commodity sanctions.

Minister of Defence of Lithuania Arvydas Anušauskas is convinced that Ukraine needs to be provided with new anti-missile defense systems, and new sanctions should be introduced against iran. “If russia plans to place iranian missiles near the northern border of Ukraine, the need for anti-missile defense systems in the entire region is even greater. And so is the need for economic sanctions against the iranian regime”, he said.

European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson has said that the European Union has managed to attract 25.5 million euros to meet Ukraine's immediate energy needs.

According to Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas, the way to peace in Ukraine lies through “driving russia” from Ukrainian territory.

Minister of Internal Affairs of Bulgaria, Ivan Demerdzhiev, has announced that the government allowed to continue the program for housing Ukrainian refugees. Instead of hotels, refugees from Ukraine will be accommodated in state facilities, 15 days until mid-November will be allocated for resettlement. “Only Bulgaria and two other countries – Cyprus and Ireland – provide such protection (to Ukrainian refugees) for an unlimited period. On the other hand, we want to make sure that in winter these people will be accommodated in proper places and they will not have to move to harsh climatic conditions”, said Demerdzhiev.

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The United Kingdom has banned the import of gold jewelry made in third countries from russian gold.

The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions on russian oligarchs who allowed president putin to mobilize russian industry to support the war effort in Ukraine. Namely, director general of tatavtodor shaimiev, director general of taif shigabutdinov, former heads of the russian metallurgical company evraz frolov and abramov. They are banned from entering the country, and their assets will be frozen.

The law firm McCue Jury & Partners (United Kingdom) has announced that it will file a lawsuit on behalf of the injured Ukrainians in the High Court of London against the russian oligarch yevgeny prigozhin, who is close to putin, and the private military company “wagner” created by him due to the group's terrorist actions in Ukraine. “To our knowledge, this is the first time in history that a private military company has been sued for using terrorism and conspiring with a rogue state that finances it to wage an illegal war”, the British lawyers said.

The Dutch holding Veon, which owns the russian communications operator vympelkom, has announced its intention to sell russian assets.

Germany reduced exports of goods to russia in September by 5.6% compared to August. At the same time, it became known that the German manufacturer of Jagermeister, the most famous liqueur in the world, will not supply it to the rf.

Since the beginning of the russian aggression against Ukraine, the richest russians have lost $ 83.4 billion since the beginning of the year, according to the updated ranking of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI). The owner of renova vekselberg lost the most, his fortune decreased by $ 11.2 billion. The owner of nornickel potanin (minus $ 1.08 billion), co-owner of novatek mikhelson (minus $ 8 billion), the head of severstal mordashov also suffered significant financial losses (minus $7.78 billion), beneficiary of NLMK lisin (minus $7.8 billion), co-owner of lukoil alekperov (minus $1.86 billion), owner of metaloinvest usmanov (minus $3.38 billion), co-owner of novatek and sibura timchenko (minus $ 8.35 billion), ex-beneficiary of eurochem and suek melnichenko (minus $ 3.88 billion), owner of oneksim prokhorov (minus $ 816 million), founder of alfa group friedman (minus $2.81 billion).

As a result of russian manufacturers’ inability to deliver equipment on time, the plan to modernize old TPPs is being disrupted, the council of energy producers said. Six TPPs with a capacity of 575 MW, for the modernization of which 11 billion rubles were allocated, are significantly behind schedule for 2022. However, the problems only began to worsen: the commissioning of 11 power units with a capacity of 3 GW worth 46 billion rubles was postponed indefinitely.

47 % of russians have no savings, – says superjob's research service. A third of the respondents, having lost all sources of income, would be able to live on their savings less than one month to two months and only 5 % more than a year.

The mobilization has adversely affected russia's business, – said the russian union of industrialists and entrepreneurs. According to it, 27.6 % of enterprises reported about the projected reduction of investments, 19.5 % – about an increase in the delivery time , 30% – about an increase in the term of order execution, 41 % – about a decrease in profit, 44.6 % – about the total deterioration of the financial condition .

In the third quarter, sales of smartphones in the rf decreased by 30 %, and in money equivalent – by 43 %. Experts say that because of the crisis, the russians began to buy less premium devices and prefer budget phones.