September 19, 2022 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielus Landsbergis, after the news about hundreds of graves in the liberated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces Izium, stated that Ukraine needs tanks. “The words could not prevent this mass burial. The condemnation in itself will not put an end to this genocide. Tanks speak louder than words. To arm Ukraine now means now”, Landsbergis said.

Defense Minister of the Czech Republic Jana Černochová, responding to mass burials in Kharkiv region, said Prague would continue to support Ukraine to end the war with “the putin nazis”.

Minister of Defense of Germany Christine Lambrecht called for investigating possible military crimes against the background of reports of mass burials, including civilians, near Izium. “It is necessary for these terrible crimes to be investigated – ideally by the UN forces. The responsible for war crimes should be brought to court”, Ms. Lambrecht said.

President of Georgia Salome Zourabishvili called russian atrocities in Izium military crimes.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova Nicu Popescu, called for punishing the perpetrators of atrocities in Izium.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania considers unacceptable the statements of former Minister Andrei Marga on russia’s war against Ukraine and its consequences. “These statements are in a flashy contradiction with the official position of romania on russia’s illegal, unreasonable and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, as well as with the basic principles of international law governing international relations today”, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania said.

Foreign Minister of Austria Alexander Shalllenberg responded to proposals to cancel anti -russian sanctions in exchange for the restoration of uninterrupted supply of russian gas. “This is an attempt to blackmail. And we all know: if we succumb to blackmailing once, then it will happen again”, said Shalllenberg.

The European Commission has proposed to freeze the obligation to pay Hungary almost € 7.5 billion from the budget of the European Union (in total 65 % under three programs within the framework of the EU Balanced Development Fund), – said EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn. This decision is made by the EU for the first time in history, a formal reason being violation of the rule of law and insufficient efforts to fight corruption. Experts say a different thing: Hungary abandons European values, opposes the European consolidated policy and has taken a frankly pro -russian position.

Earlier, most European Parliament members supported the conclusions that Hungary is not a country with developed democracy. European politicians have repeatedly accused Hungary's Prime Minister Orban of dismantling democratic institutions in the country, media pressure and persecution of national minorities.

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At a meeting of high -level officials in August 2022, an assessment of losses suffered by the stock market and the banking sector of the country as a result of US sanctions and Western countries was presented. Once again, having made an attempt on the territorial integrity of Ukraine, russia has already lost: 40 % of market capitalization; $ 300 billion reserves of its central bank; 4 trillion 600 billion rubles in the form of frozen Eurobonds; 10 % of the capital of the banking system; 563 billion rubles of frozen retail assets and assets that are in deposits. The presentation also told about the impact of the 80 % of the banking sector's assets being under sanctions, SWIFT disconnection and the loss of access to key equipment and software. As well as “actual disappearance” of tools such as derivatives, hedging, Eurobonds and initial public offerings.

In russia, a shortage of winter frost -resistant diesel is expected, – said the president of the russian fuel union arkush. According to him, the rf has always been short of winter diesel, it was replaced by other types of fuel (average distillates or substitutes for diesel fuel), and now they are not available in the domestic market – they are being exported.

According to the results of August, the average requested amount of a russian’s micro -loans reached a record level of 24.8 thousand rubles, but financial organizations can offer an average of three times less. In particular, as a result of the study, every second russian with an average level of income has admitted that in order to make an unplanned purchase, he has to save or take a loan.

peskov has acknowledged that international sanctions have a negative impact on russian relations with China.

International sanctions, a sharp decline in payment surplus and geopolitical complications can lead to the growth of the dollar on the rf to 100 rubles (almost twice as compared with the current rate), – said shulgin, chief of the global studies department of the company. The sixth package of sanctions against the rf will be very effective, – said the russian economist.

According to car dealers, there are enough new cars in belarus for a few days. As of last year, the first in the number of new cars sold (11 669) was russian lada. Today, the cheapest lada granta with an automatic transmission in car dealerships costs about $ 15,600 in the car dealership. For comparison, in 2018, the most expensive granta cost about $ 10,200. At the same time, the cheapest lada was available at $ 7,200. largus is available for almost $ 24,000 for the wealthiest lada lovers today. Due to the fact that there are no new cars, dealers are forced to focus on reselling the used ones. Instead of new cars, they are increasingly offering customers cars with mileage.

The Swedish Clothing Trade Company H&M has decided to close its stores and leave the belarusian market completely. In russia, H&M Group closed its stores on March 2 in response to russian aggression against Ukraine. H&M and its subsidiaries are operating in 71 countries in the world, where they have almost five thousand stores.