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

Secretary General of the Council of Europe Alain Berset has said that russia’s attacks on Kyiv and Lviv region, which resulted in the deaths and injuries of civilians, “are yet another barbaric act that demonstrates contempt for international law.” “Our priority is to hold russia accountable for the crimes committed and to pay compensation to the victims,” Berset said.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned russia’s shelling of Ukraine, which has resulted in civilian casualties and the destruction of critical infrastructure.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Baiba Braze has said that her country intends to request an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with russia’s “barbaric attack” on Ukraine and the use of medium-range ballistic missiles near the borders of the EU and NATO.

On January 12, an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council will be held on the situation in Ukraine after another series of russia’s massive strikes and use of “oreshnik” missile. Ukraine’s initiative was supported by France, Latvia, Denmark, Greece, Liberia, and the United Kingdom.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte have discussed the USA’s peace efforts to end the russian-Ukrainian war.

The United Kingdom will allocate £200 million to prepare British troops for deployment in Ukraine after the ceasefire with russia.

Head of the Officer Training Institute at the Theresian Military Academy (Austria) Colonel Markus Reisner believes that the USA’s participation is a decisive factor in European states’ readiness to deploy multinational forces in Ukraine after the ceasefire.

Ukraine and the USA are working on the possibility of concluding a free trade agreement.

“They would not have come anyway and would have been booed by 90% of the other participants of the Conference. I’m sorry, but right now the presence of a representative of the russian government at the Conference makes little sense,” said Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) Wolfgang Ischinger regarding the russian delegation’s participation in the Conference.

Head of the Estonian Defense Forces Intelligence Center Ants Kiviselg considers russia’s use of the “oreshnik” ballistic missile in western Ukraine to be a signal to the West.

US President Donald Trump has stated that Washington is not going to have russia or China as Greenland’s “neighbor”.

russian oil companies were forced to significantly reduce production in December due to sanctions imposed by Donald Trump’s administration, which disrupted sales to the kremlin’s largest customers, India and China. Last month, oil production in russia fell by more than 100,000 barrels per day. The decline in production was the largest since mid-2024.

The last channel for the supply of Western goods to russia in 2025 began to close rapidly. The volume of “parallel imports”, which was launched shortly after the start of the full-scale war against Ukraine to supply the economy with products from Western companies that had left, almost halved at the end of last year. In January-November 2025, goods worth $20.9 billion were imported into russia through “parallel import” mechanisms, i.e., without the permission of the copyright holder, which is by 45% less than in the same period last year.

aleksandr dugin, the ideologist of the “russian world”, has called on russians to prepare for the imminent end of the world.

Annual statistics on views of the russian-language Wikipedia shows a decline in public interest in putin. At the end of 2025, he was surpassed in popularity by rapper Pasha Tekhnik, who died of an overdose: the number of views of the musician’s page was approximately by 60,000 more than putin’s. At this, the number of views of his pages almost halved this year.

The only opposition figure to make it into the top 200 biographical articles on the russian Wikipedia that russians were interested in in 2025 was Aleksei Navalny. At this, he was in 160th place.

The krasnodar territory has become the leader among russian regions in terms of the decline in demand for tourist tours. This happened after the oil spill off the coast of kuban in December 2024. In general, russians’ demand for tours within the rf fell by about 10% in 2025 compared to the previous year. The krasnodar territory lost the most last year – 15%. Anapa received 5.5 million tourists in 2024, and only about 2 million in 2025.

The Sejm of Poland has approved the extension of the regime restricting migrants from applying for asylum at the border with belarus. The measure has been extended for another 60 days.