August 10, 2024 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

“...If we want to de-escalate tensions, as we've said from the beginning, the best way to do that is putin can make that decision today to withdraw troops from Ukraine”, said Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh.

Rheinmetall will supply eight additional Forward Surgical Team stations for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In January-July 2024, Ukraine exported goods worth $22.6 billion.

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The United Kingdom Air Force plans to deploy a radar station in Wales to counter space threats from China and the rf.

The comprehensive program for the development of the rf's aviation industry, approved in 2022 and scheduled to last until 2030, will be drastically reduced: a financial audit of the united aircraft building corporation's plants concluded that there is no “economically justified demand” for 1,000 new aircrafts.

The cost of the russian short-medium-haul passenger aircraft ms-21 has increased significantly due to the “import substitution” of American P&W engines, which cost 800-900 million rubles, with russian pd-14 engines worth 1.8 billion rubles. The joint russian-French SAM146 engines, which were installed on the superjet 100 regional jet passenger aircraft, cost 600-700 million rubles, while the russian pd-8 engine that replaced them costs almost 1 billion rubles.

The net loss of the russian raspadskaya coal company under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the first half of the year amounted to $99 million; revenue decreased by 19% to $999 million against $1.226 billion a year earlier. The company's EBITDA (the company's profit before deduction of amortization costs, interest payments on debts and payment of direct taxes) fell by 51% to $213 million.

roskomnadzor’s main radio frequency center has sent requests to russian telecom operators to provide information on IP subnet addresses and addresses of communication nodes where Google Global Cache servers are connected. At the same time, since August 1, the daily traffic of the video service in the rf has dropped to 30% of the speed in July.

The USA’s Embassy in minsk recorded a video on the anniversary of the 2020’s elections and the beginning of the protests in the rb. The authors expressed support for the democratic aspirations of the belarusian people and called for the immediate release of political prisoners.

Ben Cardin, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has called for the defense of political prisoners in the rb.

EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell has said that lukashenko's regime is involved in the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children during russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He also reminded that lukashenko provided political, military and logistical support to the rf.

The UK government has imposed sanctions on seven individuals and entities from the rb.

In response to the new EU sanctions, the government of the rb has banned imports of certain goods from “unfriendly” countries. The list of banned goods includes apples and pears, macaronis and margarine, plastic utensils, fertilizers, some woodworking products, certain types of paper packaging, as well as cement and cement products.

The number of construction workers in the rb decreased by more than 10 thousand during the year.