September 21, 2023 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Germany has revealed the details of a new package of military aid to Ukraine worth EUR 400 million. Ukraine will receive: 30 thousand shells of 155 mm caliber, about 3,800 smoke shells for 155-mm artillery, 105 thousand 120-mm tank shells, 480 AT-2 shells, 200 MRAP armored vehicles, 50 surface drones.

Minister of National Defense of Lithuania Arvydas Anušauskas has presented the latest package of military support for Ukraine, which includes “detonation systems, naval surveillance radars and ammunition for the Carl Gustaf anti-tank grenade launcher”. He also signed a declaration of support for the coalition to support Ukraine in the field of information technology, or IT Coalition, which will assist with cyber security for Ukraine's Armed Forces.

“Latvia will provide Ukraine with additional military support, covering the most critical needs – additional mortars, air defense systems and large-caliber ammunition”, said Latvian Defense Minister Andris Sprūds.

UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has promised an additional supply of tens of thousands of artillery shells for Ukrainian Armed Forces by the end of the year.

In his speech at the UN General Assembly, US President Joe Biden called “unacceptable” any concessions to russia contrary to international law in order to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible, emphasizing that this would undermine the international legal order.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukraine needs to strengthen its air defense with ammunition, spare parts and maintenance for existing systems.

The US Department of the Treasury has announced sanctions against seven individuals and four entities from Iran, China, russia and Turkey that facilitated the supply of components for the production of Iranian military aircrafts and drones.

“Even in times of war, we must not lose the perspective of peace. But it is up to Ukraine to decide when the time for negotiations comes”, said Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Professor of the University of Lodz Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski believes that the Polish government “will not stop supporting Ukraine, even if there is some kind of conflict, because such support is a matter of life and death”.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is negotiating with the Croatian DOK-ING and the Slovak Way Industries to localize the production of mechanized demining vehicles in Ukraine.

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September 19, gazprom lost operational control over Moldova's gas transmission system, Moldovatransgaz reported. This happened as part of unbundling – separation of gas transportation and distribution activities. The unbundling of the natural gas transmission system operator is a requirement of the EU's Third Energy Package, as well as one of Moldova's obligations to join the treaty establishing the Energy Community.

Norway intends to decide on restrictions on the entry of private cars with russian license plates.

African countries sharply reduced payments in rubles for exports from russia in the summer of 2023.

Against the background of rising inflation and sharp currency fluctuations, russian banks declare an increased demand for gold bars from the population, so there is a significant shortage of them.

A draft law on the liquidation of microfinance organizations will be submitted to the state duma of the rf this week, said the head of the party “a just russia – for the truth” mironov. “About 15 million our citizens are in bad debts to credit institutions, in particular microfinance institutions”, he is convinced.

Authorities of Germany believe that it is illegal to receive two pensions for the same length of service, and are reducing payments to russian pensioners living in Germany by the amount that russians are paid in the rf.

In russia, the price of a 150-200 ml cup of coffee has increased by 118% in recent years, according to data from the fiscal data operator ofd platform.

Agricultural enterprises and farms of the perm territory harvested more than 247 thousand tons of grain at the beginning of September 2023. Compared to the data as of September 1, 2022, this figure fell by 7.9%. Also, compared to the beginning of last year's harvesting, the rate of potato harvest decreased by 4.6%.

The harvesting campaign for kurgan region of the rf may become unprofitable due to low grain prices and gradually increasing cost of diesel fuel.

At the beginning of the new school year, 150 secondary schools in perm and the perm territory have a significant number of vacancies for teachers.

The state commission on radio frequencies (scrf) intends to prohibit businesses, citizens and most government agencies from using means of electronic suppression of drones.

The russian south has been covered by a rotavirus epidemic.

Twenty-one members of the anti-war civil movement “vesna” have been included in rosfinmonitoring’s register of “extremists and terrorists”.

Latvia has installed concrete barriers and barbed wire at the closed Silene checkpoint on the border with belarus.

lukashenko has promised to create a “serious missile” and admitted that belarus had switched from Chinese to russian technologies in rocketry.

lukashenko believes that the reason for catching fire by belarusian maz buses in st. petersburg was that employees of the russian st. petersburg service company “have never seen buses”.

presidential administration of the rb has been authorized to independently determine what to do with gifts to officials “taking into consideration the specifics of the activity and organizational structure”.

The security forces of gomel report weekly on mass detentions due to subscriptions to resources that the authorities and security forces consider to be “extremist” ones. Another video of the detention of 10 citizens of the country appeared on the network, the third since the beginning of the month.

In gomel, during joint raids by traffic police and bailiffs on citizens who were fined for traffic violations, things of material value (TVs, laptops, mobile phones, etc.) were seized.