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

The USA supports the European Union in using frozen russian assets as a tool to support Ukraine and end the war with russia.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced that it will allocate a total of  EUR 100 million to support economic resilience and heating infrastructure in Ukraine.

Ukraine has signed a memorandum with the Greek company Atlantic-see LNG Trade for regular supplies of American liquefied natural gas through Greek gas terminals. The long-term partnership covers the period up to 2050.

As of November 2025, Ukraine has already concluded 28 bilateral agreements on security cooperation with international partners, namely the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Denmark, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, Latvia, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Japan, the United States, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Luxembourg, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Ireland, Greece, Albania, and the European Union.

“When russia uses dangerous and uncompromising nuclear rhetoric, our nations must know that there is no reason to panic, because NATO has a powerful nuclear deterrent to preserve peace... And putin must know that a nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought,” said NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

The United Kingdom, together with its allies in the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), is conducting an exercise in Norway to practice a scenario of actions in case of russia’s  attack in the Arctic.

The European Union has begun work on a new, 20th  package of sanctions against belarus and russia. This was announced by European Commissioner for Financial Services Maria Luis Albuquerque.

The European Commission has announced a ban on issuing multiple-entry tourist visas to russian citizens. Almost half of the European tourist visas issued in russia last year were multiple-entry visas.

The European Union authorities are creating a Centre for Democratic Resilience to counter disinformation from russia.

russia’s oil giant “Lukoil” will cease operations in Moldova on November 21 due to US sanctions. Moldova is also considering the possibility of acquiring the assets of the russian company “Lukoil” in the country.

The chain of Teboil filling  stations, owned by the russian company “Lukoil”, is ceasing operations in Finland.

The rf’s government is preparing to allow the use of alcohol in petrol production to increase supply to the fuel market. In addition to ethyl alcohol, oil refineries will be allowed to use monomethylaniline – an octane-boosting additive that increases output. Due to its high toxicity and cancer risks, it is banned in most countries around the world.

In October 2025, oil and gas export revenues decreased  by 27 % compared to last year. moscow received 888.6 billion rubles, equivalent to $10.9 billion, in tax revenues from the energy sector. For comparison, in October 2024, this figure was approximately 1.2 trillion rubles.

Sales of large household appliances in russia have decreased by 4 %.

In the first six months of 2025, russian courts sentenced 54 people to life imprisonment. The share of life sentences among all court verdicts for the six months was 0.025 %  –  the highest figure since records began in 2005. Fifty-four life sentences – also a record for the absolute number of such sentences in a six-month period since at least 2019.

Builders of a nuclear facility in Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk region) went on strike over two months of unpaid wages.

In Kaliningrad region, the transport tax is being doubled.

russia has seen a new, fourth mass failure of the Telegram messenger in the last three weeks. About 60 % of russian users encountered difficulties when downloading media files, and for 8 % the program stopped working completely. Complaints are coming in from Karelia, Kaliningrad region, St. Petersburg, as well as Kemerovo and Tomsk regions.

belarus remains the last country in the world where october revolution day is a public holiday.

Every fifth  industrial enterprise in belarus is unprofitable.