November 5, 2024 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

“We are countering this brutality with our humanity and support, so that Ukrainians can not only survive the winter, but so that their country can survive. Because they are also defending the freedom of all of us in Europe”, said Minister of Foreign Affairs of the FRG Annalena Baerbock.

“The Special Headquarters Ukraine (in Germany) is in constant, round-the-clock contact with the Ukrainian Armed Forces to find out what is needed and how to deliver it to Ukraine as soon as possible”, said Spokesperson for Germany’s Defense Ministry Mitko Müller.

The USA’s Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink has said that the United States has funded the creation of 800 mobile firing groups of the National Guard and the State Border Guard Service in Ukraine, which have shot down more than 200 enemy drones since the beginning of the year.

EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell has called on South Korea to increase its support for Ukraine amid Seoul's concerns about dprk’s sending troops to russia.

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Germany and the United States have condemned the rf’s interference in the presidential election in Moldova.

The Defense Ministry of Lithuania has prepared a draft law under which residents of the country with dual citizenship, including russia’s, the rb’s and China’s, will not be accepted for military service, and those who are already serving will be dismissed.

The Ministry of Economy of Taiwan has increased fifteen times the fine for the initial violation of anti-russian sanctions, to $31.3 thousand. At the same time, exporters of machine tools manufactured in Taiwan are obliged to mention the final recipient to prevent their delivery to russia through third countries.

Jaguar Land Rover has sold its russian assets.

In the Finnish city of Tampere, on November 3, after almost 80 years of operation, the lenin museum was closed forever.

russia's major oil refineries – volgograd, ilsky and yaya – failed to complete repairs in October and extended the downtime of some refineries throughout November.

Since the beginning of the year, office rents in moscow have risen by 10% to RUB 24.6 thousand for a square meter a month, and in st. petersburg – by 8% to 19%, to RUB 2.9 thousand for a square meter.

Over the year, butter prices in the rf rose by 25.7%, the most in 17 years.

For the third week in a row, potatoes have been rising in price in russia: from October 8 to 14 – by 1.3%, from October 15 to 21 – by 2%, from October 22 to 28 – by 3.1%. According to rosstat, since the beginning of the year, retail prices for this vegetable in the rf have increased by 54.72%, and since October last year – by more than 60%.

Due to the significant decline in prices for potash fertilizers, self-proclaimed president of the rb lukashenko has proposed to reduce the production of raw materials for these fertilizers in the country by 10-11%. The average price per ton in April-June this year was by $212 less than last year and at the beginning of this year.

The ministry of foreign affairs of the rb plans to conduct a large rotation of diplomats abroad. foreign minister ryzhenkov has explained that diplomats abroad are changed to prevent them from being influenced by their host country.

Today, there are 446 thousand working citizens of retirement age in the rb. Of these, 110,000 do not receive the full amount of their pensions.

The kgb of the rb has recognized a coalition of nine yard chats, including “solidarity,” “viliya,” “skromnyie (modest- Transl.) matreshki” and “sosedi”(“neighbours”- Transl.) as an “extremist formation.”