Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

The US Senate has approved a bipartisan $925 billion defence budget for 2026, which includes $500 million for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.

EU Commissioner for Economy and Productivity Valdis Dombrovskis has said that funding for Ukraine under the ERA loan mechanism, in which the G7 countries and the European Union participate, is proceeding according to schedule—our country will receive another EUR 8.4 billion by the end of the year.

During a telephone conversation, the leaders of France, the United Kingdom, and Germany agreed to promote an initiative to use frozen russian assets to support Ukraine.

Ukraine and the Netherlands have signed a memorandum of understanding that provides for the launch of joint production of deep-strike UAVs in the Netherlands with EUR 110 million in investments as part of the Build with Ukraine initiative.

Ukraine and the United Kingdom have agreed to establish a working group to coordinate joint projects under the LYRA program – a partnership in the field of battlefield technologies.

“Poland is already discussing how to support Ukraine... Generators, additional electricity supplies, accelerated construction of power lines between Ukraine and Poland, and, of course, our LNG terminal in Świnoujście – all this is at your service,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radosław Sikorski.

Canadian Senator Stan Kutcher believes that his country should use its influence on the international stage to speed up Ukraine’s accession to NATO and the EU.

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Margus Tsahkna expects further provocations from russia. He has said he is very pleased with NATO’s decisive response to russian fighter jets violating his country’s airspace last month. “This is not about Estonia, but about NATO’s unity and testing our capabilities and transatlantic unity,” he said. However, he expects moscow’s  further actions aimed at challenging NATO.

The Estonian Border Guard decided to close the Saatse border crossing point.

Authorities of Latvia have ordered 841 russian citizens who failed to prove their knowledge of the Latvian language to leave the country by October 13.

German airlines have called for permission to shoot down drones over airports.

In September, average retail petrol prices in russia increased by 2.58 % (the highest since 2018). In annual terms, the increase in prices at filling stations reached 12.73 % – a record high for the last 14 years.

Tomatoes in russia rose in price by 23 % in September.

Following Sobyanin and Matvienko, Governor of moscow region Andrei Vorobyov has called for forcing russians who do not work to pay for medical care.

In the third quarter of 2025, the article on “high treason” became the most popular in political cases in russia. Every fifth new political prosecution was based on this article. In second place were Articles 205 (terrorist acts) and 205.2 (calls for terrorism) – 17 % each, and in third place was Article 205.5 (participation in a terrorist organization) – 10 %. In total, more than 500 new political cases were opened in russian regions each quarter this year (excluding temporarily occupied territories), or five cases per day.

Over the past year, 1.4 out of every 100,000 people in russia have been subjected to political repression. The highest level per capita is observed in the Far Eastern Federal District.  An increase in repression has been pointed out in the North-Western and Siberian Districts. As for the temporarily occupied territories, the level of repression in Crimea and Sevastopol is 3.5 times higher than in the internationally recognized regions of russia, and 7 times higher in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine. In almost half of the cases, articles on high treason or espionage are applied. Charges under terrorism articles are also most often brought.

The state duma wants to ban russians from keeping more than one dog or cat in one-room apartments.

Cancer patients in the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Districts have been left without medicines for PET and CT scans, which are the most accurate ways to diagnose metastases and tumors. Now cancer patients are being sent to Novosibirsk and moscow, but even in their own regions, patients had to wait up to two months for an appointment. The Khabarovsk District also has problems with equipment for cancer patients: the radiation therapy and PET machines have not been working for several months. There is no money for repairs or new equipment.

Workers at the GRES in Primorye are staying overnight at the power plant and threatening to jump off the roof: they have not been paid their salaries. Salary problems have been occurring regularly in different  regions of the rf since the start of the full-scale war against Ukraine. In Irkutsk region, teachers have not been receiving incentive payments for a year, and their December salaries are at risk. All the money is going to support the war. In Yakutia, payments to firefighters and rescuers are being delayed, and they are being advised to take unpaid leave to save money. In Kemerovo region, miners are out of work due to money problems.

Northern districts of Yakutia may be left without food. The state-owned company “Arctic Trade and Logistics Company” cannot deliver socially important food products to the northern regions due to a lack of funds. Problems with northern deliveries are not limited to Yakutia. In Kamchatka and Chukotka, residents constantly report interruptions in the supply of medicines. In particular, there are no medications for pediculosis in Chukotka: children in the boarding school in the village of Ust-Belaya have been infected with it. They are being advised to treat it with folk remedies. Currently, the schoolchildren are being sent home to Snezhnoye: they study at the boarding school because there is no school in Snezhnoye. Sometimes there is no paramedic in Snezhnoye for six months. Meanwhile, northern regions regularly report on “aid” to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine: for example, the Far East regions have restored more than 1,000 social facilities in the so-called “dpr”.

A meeting was held in Vladivostok demanding the cancellation of new recycling fee rates. More than 500 people took to the square with posters reading “They drive Mercedeses, we drive Zhigulis” and “There’s disposable waste, but where are the plants?” The townspeople are convinced that the initiative will lead to higher car prices and effectively prevent Far East residents from buying foreign cars.

The European Union and the Council of Europe have called for a legal moratorium as a first step towards abolishing the death penalty. Between 2015 and 2025, 24 death sentences were handed down in belarus.

TST PL and its actual beneficiary Armen Arutyunyan have been added to the sanctions list based on the statement by the head of the National Tax Administration of Poland. The reason – helping the belarusian company Grodno Azot circumvent sanctions.

Heads of district executive committees in the rb will receive a bonus for meeting targets for increasing milk sales and reducing livestock losses. If they fail to meet the targets, they will not receive additional pay for the complexity and intensity of their work.