President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may soon visit several Western European capitals to urge them to increase their aid for Ukraine amid the slowdown in US funding, Bloomberg has learned.
Source: European Pravda with reference to Bloomberg
Details: Bloomberg…
Editor’s Note: This is issue 118 of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly, covering events from Feb. 2-Feb. 9, 2024. The Kyiv Independent is reposting it with permission.Ukrainian SOE Weekly is an independent weekly digest based on a compilation of …
Kyiv should not expect much progress on its efforts to join NATO during the July summit in Washington, DC, U.K. Ambassador to NATO David Quarrey said in a comment to Politico published on Feb. 8.Ukraine did not receive the much-desired invitation nor …
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Some Russian banks are likely trading gold in the UAE and Türkiye to avoid the ban on bringing dollars and euros into the country.
Source: Bloomberg
Details: Bloomberg, citing Sayari data, indicates that various Russian creditors continued to sup…
An EU court dismissed the appeal of Russian-Uzbek oligarch Alisher Usmanov to be removed from the EU sanctions list on Feb. 7. The EU imposed sanctions against Usmanov and other top Russian oligarchs and officials in February 2022, shortly after the be…
Russia included Kyrylo Budanov, the chief of Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR), Navy Commander Oleksii Neizhpapa, and Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk on its list “terrorists and extremists,” Russian media reported on Feb. 7.Others included on …
Some Russian banks may be evading sanctions on banknotes by trading gold in the UAE and Turkey, according to a report by Sayari, a financial-intelligence company. Sanctions on shipping banknotes to Russia were imposed after the full-scale invasion of U…
Northern Ireland, a country within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has finally sworn a new government, ending a two-year political crisis and likely entering into a new one.
For the first time since its existence (since 1921)…
A Moscow court ordered the arrest on Feb. 6 of the popular Russian writer Boris Akunin, who has lived in exile since 2014, over his criticisms of the full-scale war on Ukraine, which the government deemed to be in violation of laws regulating speech ab…