April 27, 2025 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has received more than $12.8 billion in budgetary assistance from the IMF. For 2025, the IMF EFF program provides up to USD 2.3 billion to Ukraine based on the results of four revisions. The first USD 400 million were transferred to the state budget of our country in March this year.

Ukraine will receive EUR 270 million through the EBRD to support the energy sector, including a EUR 140 million grant from the Government of Norway.

Ukraine and NATO have set priorities for the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Center (JATEC). The parties paid special attention to partner involvement in the center’s work, building resilience of information systems, supporting education and training, interoperability, and cooperation in developing solutions to battlefield challenges.

At the meeting in the Czech Republic, representatives of the member states of the Coalition of the Resolute reaffirmed the need to guarantee a ceasefire before negotiations on a further peaceful settlement begin. “We remain committed to supporting Ukraine in accordance with the principles of European security,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, summarizing the meeting.

“If we do what is proposed and recognize Crimea as de jure russian, it will be a time bomb that keeps exploding over and over again,” said President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda.

“It is very important that Ukraine’s sovereignty is preserved and that Ukraine decides for itself what is important to it. No peace agreement without Ukraine’s consent,” said Deputy Spokesperson for the Government of the FRG Christine Hoffmann.

More than 50 representatives of embassies, including European ones, and foreign organizations paid tribute to the 12 people killed in the rf’s air attack on Kyiv.

Since the beginning of the 2024/2025 marketing year, Ukraine has exported 34.74 million tons of grains and pulses.

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France will no longer recognize five-year russian passports without biometric data as valid documents for entry into the country.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Netherlands will prosecute Damen Shipyards, the largest Dutch shipbuilding company, for violating sanctions against russia. Prosecutors suspect Damen Shipyards of continuing to supply goods and technology to russia over the past three years, despite EU sanctions imposed after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The Migration Service of Finland has reviewed almost all applications of more than one thousand russian men who fled mobilization, and 70 % of asylum seekers have been rejected.

russian authorities are preparing to further increase taxes for citizens and businesses to compensate for the failure of raw material revenues and the rapid depletion of the national wealth fund.

The inflow of foreign money to the russian financial market in the hope of ending the war and making money on the difference in rates (carry trade) did not happen. “We do not see any significant carry trade flows in our market,” said head of the central bank of the rf elvira nabiullina.

The plant in the “alabuga” special economic zone in Tatarstan, where drones are produced for raids on Ukraine, wants to increase its recruitment of girls from poor countries – primarily Africa, Latin America and Asia – almost 25 times. This activity and reports of deception used to lure them to work have drawn the attention of Interpol which has already launched an investigation into “alabuga”’s involvement in human trafficking.

Between 2022 and 2024, russian courts considered at least 848 administrative cases for “discrediting” the army, initiated not for protests, graffiti, or online publications, but solely for words spoken aloud in public places.

Employees of bankrupt companies are being forced to pay off the debts out of their own pockets.

The video hosting service rutube, owned by gazprom-media, which in February estimated its audience at 77 million people, proactively transfers “all data” of its users to russian law enforcement agencies.

The russian neural networks yandexgpt and gigachat, created by “yandex” and “sber”, respectively, showed the worst results in terms of censorship among all language models (LLMs) in the world, including Chinese.

The shortage of medical personnel in rural areas of the rf is over 50%.

On the rf’s border with Lithuania and Latvia, the activity of illegal migrants has been record-breaking over the past year and a half. From April 1 to April 24, Lithuania prevented 271 attempts to illegally cross the border. The last time the number was higher was in November 2023 (332). Latvia prevented 1,334 attempts. The last time there were more attempts within one month was in October 2023 (2,866). The situation on the Polish direction changed slightly in April compared to March: 1,779 attempts from April 1 to April 23, compared to 1,614 over 23 days in March.

In recent days, siloviki in different regions of belarus have intensified the detention of people in administrative and criminal cases. Border checks are also continuing, which in some cases result in detention.

Following the potato shortage, belarus is expected to face a shortage of cucumbers. The reason is the manual management of the country’s economy.

The problem of labor shortage in belarus can be resolved either by attracting labor migrants from other countries or by “giving birth”, lukashenko said.

In belarus, the gap between real wages, which are adjusted for inflation, and labor productivity is widening. While in January- February the former grew by 12.3 %, the latter grew by 3 %.