August 5, 2024 Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

US Special Representative for Ukraine's Economic Recovery Penny Pritzker has presented a five-step plan to ensure Ukraine's successful economic recovery. According to her, in order to make the “Ukrainian dream” a reality, it is necessary to develop government planning for a single recovery project; create teams that will prepare more projects for investment and implementation; continue anti-corruption reforms in Ukraine; the world should invest more in our country; Ukrainians should return from abroad to help rebuild the country.

The government of Norway has provided additional funding of USD 7.4 million to support UNICEF's programs in Ukraine.

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“Shaping foreign policy today means recognizing that the principle of hope will not protect us from putin's russia”, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the FRG Annalena Baerbock has reiterated regarding the deployment of long-range US missiles on German territory.

The day before, German and Swedish air force planes intercepted russian fighter jets near the Latvian border.

The Supreme Court of the Czech Republic has upheld the 21-year prison sentence for Alois Polak, who fought in the ranks of pro-russian forces against Ukraine.

russians are losing the ability to pay off their bank debts: in the second quarter of 2024, the number of applications for loan restructuring increased by 21% compared to the first quarter, – to 915 thousand.

The russian crisis and the early end of the period of massive preferential mortgages in the rf, as well as the reduction in new construction, led to a 0.5-0.6% increase in the cost of secondary housing in 18 major regional markets in russia (16 cities with a population of over one million, moscow and leningrad regions) in July alone. At the same time, the average cost of real estate in krasnodar increased by 2.4% to 138.4 thousand rubles for 1 square meter, in nizhny novgorod – by 1.9%, to 152.3 thousand rubles, in kazan – by 1.9%, to 167.7 thousand rubles, in tyumen – by 1.2%, to 121.4 thousand rubles.

In July, exports of russian urals oil from the ports of primorsk, ust-luga and novorossiysk fell to a 19-month low of 1.8 million barrels per day (in June, the figure was 2.2 million bpd).

In the first half of the year, 5.4 million foreigners entered russia, which is by 8.4% fewer than in the same period last year. During the same period, 65 thousand (or by 55% more than last year) foreigners were expelled from the rf.

In the rf, there was a large-scale failure of mail.ru email service amid the russian authorities’ attempt to artificially slow down YouTube.

The belarusian medical solidarity fund has reported that ten percent of medical workers have left for other countries. According to belstat, at the end of 2023, there were 55.8 thousand doctors- specialists in belarus, 48.7 thousand practitioners included.

belarusians who bought cars imported from China faced a serious problem. The cars were not russified so many functions, such as navigation, radio, and auto-start, are not available to the owners. For almost six months, branded services have been unable to resolve this problem.