May 29, 2023 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

“To ensure peace in Europe, we need Ukraine to become a member of the European Union and NATO”, said Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas. According to her, russia must be defeated and return to its borders.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis has said that russia continues to pose a threat to the whole world as long as the current regime is in power.

Austria allocates EUR 2 million for demining in Ukraine.

The US Congress is trying to speed up the supply of weapons to Ukraine for a counteroffensive.

“My reaction is extremely negative”, US President Joe Biden said of the deployment of russian nuclear weapons on belarusian territory.

“russia's barbaric attacks continue, killing and terrorizing civilians: the attack on a hospital in Dnipro, now on Kyiv at the dawn of Kyiv's Day. The russian leadership and those responsible will be brought to justice”, EU Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Nabila Massrali said.

Poland has already frozen russian oligarchs’ assets worth more than 1 billion euros. The second reading of the draft law was held in the Polish Sejm. Adoption of this law will allow to legally confiscate  russian assets.

President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa has set up a commission to investigate reports of alleged arms exports from the African country to russia.

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Tensions between Saudi Arabia and russia are rising as moscow continues to supply huge amounts of cheaper oil to the market, undermining Riyadh's efforts to raise energy prices.

Instead of the “sila sibiri – 2”( power of siberia 2, also known as the altai gas pipeline – Transl.) gas pipeline project, which the russian authorities have been promoting for more than 7 years, China decided to give priority to the construction of a new gas pipeline from Turkmenistan, which will allow importing 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually. Chinese state oil and gas corporation CNPC has already begun work on a feasibility study for the project.

For the second year in a row, the state air traffic management corporation (the state atm corporation) of the rf suffers significant losses due to the reduction of flights of foreign airlines: the company's loss in 2022 amounted to more than 47%  – 25 billion rubles.

Due to the russian crisis, the government of the rf is able to finance the state atm corporation for only 5 billion rubles (half as much as the ministry of transport planned), which will be enough for two to three months, after which delays in the payment of salaries to employees will begin again. The ministry of finance proposed to carry out “cost optimization” – to reduce staff and reduce the provision of services. The corporation states that there is “nobody” to be reduced in conditions of personnel shortage: more than 15% of highly qualified specialists have already left the enterprise.

YouTube has blocked the account of the russian internet news agency ura.ru.

In some regions of russia, there is a shortage of chicken carcasses and fillets due to a decrease in their production in belgorod region, which was the leading poultry producer in the rf.

The defense ministry of the rf has said it will not exempt from military service persons suffering from diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Sergoventsev, deputy chief of the main military medical directorate of the ministry of defense of the rf, also said that more than 90 % of russian servicemen who were injured during the “special operation” against Ukraine are returned to military service after prosthetics.

In rostov region, they are looking for 39 armed russian occupiers who left their positions and fled to russia’s territory. All soldiers served in “storm z” and were former prisoners.

The kgb has requested information from belarusian banks about belarusians who have donated since 2021 through PayPal and the Buy me a coffee service. Each donor will have an individual conversation with the kgb.

Andrei Bakhanov, master of sociology, researcher at the department of social theory and methodology of the institute of sociology of the national academy of sciences of belarus, has been detained in minsk. In 2020, he was one of the scientists who signed the Open Letter against the mass dismissals of employees of the institutes of the academy of sciences of belarus for participating in events against the falsification of the presidential election in belarus.