Notices by Russia-Ukraine Daily News (rvps2001@mastodon.social)

🇷🇺📉 The Russian economy is in an increasingly precarious state as a result of a shift to a war mode and of Western sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, a report by the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics said on Tuesday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-economy-worse-shape-than-moscow-says-report-eu-shows-2025-05-13/

#Russia

🇷🇺📉 Russian companies ended 2024 short of 2.6 million employees, a record high, the pro-state publication Izvestia reported on May 12, citing an analysis by Russia's Higher School of Economics.

The deepening labor shortage reflects growing strain on #Russia's workforce as the Kremlin aggressively recruits men for its war against Ukraine.

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-faces-record-2-6-million-worker-shortage-amid-war-recruitment/

🇳🇱 The U.N. aviation council on Monday ruled that #Russia was responsible for the downing of a Malaysian airliner over #Ukraine in 2014 with the deaths of 298 passengers and crew, the Dutch government said.

In a statement, it said the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization would in the coming weeks consider what form of reparation was in order.

https://www.reuters.com/world/un-aviation-body-rules-russia-downed-malaysian-airliner-say-dutch-2025-05-12/

#Netherlands #Malaysia

ISW Special Report:

🇷🇺 The Kremlin hype of the "Victory Day" parades on May 9 is a part of the Kremlin’s long-standing effort to conceal and distract from #Putin’s and #Russia's weaknesses.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/hiding-russia%E2%80%99s-weakness

🇬🇧 🇷🇺 #Britain will sanction up to 100 oil tankers from #Russia's shadow fleet, seeking to step up pressure on Moscow in the war with Ukraine as leaders from the Joint Expeditionary Force security alliance meet in Norway on Friday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-sanctions-up-100-russian-tankers-n-european-leaders-meet-norway-2025-05-08/

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🇬🇧 🇷🇺 #Britain on Friday announced a package of sanctions aimed at #Russia, including placing asset freezes on several directors of oil trading company Coral Energy Group, which is now known as 2Rivers Group.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/uk-sanctions-directors-oil-trading-group-over-russian-ties-2025-05-09/

🇦🇹 The European Union should maintain sanctions on #Russia and must diversify its energy supplies because Moscow is using energy for blackmail, Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker told Euronews in an exclusive interview.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/08/europe-must-plan-for-a-post-putin-russia-austrias-chancellor-stocker-tells-euronews

#Europe #Austria

🇪🇺🇺🇦 #Ukraine has received 1 billion euro from the European Union under the G7's Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) initiative, the European Commission announced on May 8.

The ERA mechanism, totaling $50 billion, provides loans to Ukraine that will be repaid using future profits from frozen Russian assets.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/de/mex_25_1167

#Europe #Russia

🇺🇦 #Ukraine is starting to consider a shift away from the U.S. dollar, possibly linking its currency more closely to the euro amid the splintering of global trade and its growing ties to Europe, Central Bank Governor Andriy Pyshnyi told Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-considers-shift-dollar-euro-amid-geopolitical-realignments-2025-05-07/

#UPDATE

🇩🇪 #Germany’s Friedrich Merz has won a parliamentary vote to become chancellor at the second attempt, hours after an unprecedented defeat signaled deep discontent within his coalition.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/europe/merz-chancellor-german-parliament-intl

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian Air Force struck the control center of #Russia's drone units near the village of Tetkino in Russia's Kursk Oblast on May 4, #Ukraine's General Staff reported on the following day.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-strikes-at-russian-drone-control-center-in-kursk-oblast-ukraines-general-staff-says/

😁 #Russia's Rosatom has filed a lawsuit in Moscow against Finland's Fortum and Outokumpu, demanding 227.8 billion roubles ($2.8 billion) in compensation for losses over the termination of a contract for the Hanhikivi-1 nuclear power plant in #Finland 🇷🇺 🇫🇮

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-rosatom-sues-finnish-firms-28-bln-over-nuclear-plant-contract-2025-05-05/

🇷🇺 Three police officers were killed on Monday in a shootout in the southern Russian region of Dagestan, regional authorities said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/three-police-officers-killed-russias-dagestan-2025-05-05/

#russia

🇷🇺 Three people were killed after an explosion ripped through an apartment building in #Moscow and sparked a fire, state media reported early Monday, citing police sources.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/05/moscow-apartment-explosion-kills-at-least-3-a88962

#Russia

🇺🇸🇺🇦 A Patriot air defense system based in #Israel will be transferred to #Ukraine after refurbishment, the New York Times reported on May 4, citing four unnamed current and former U.S. officials.

https://kyivindependent.com/us-to-reportedly-send-refurbished-patriot-system-from-israel-to-ukraine/

#usa

🇬🇷 Greek authorities have arrested a man in the strategic port city of Alexandroupolis on suspicion of photographing supply convoys on behalf of #Russia, police said.

https://www.barrons.com/news/greece-arrests-man-on-suspicion-of-spying-for-russia-4abcdd27

#Greece

🇺🇸 The US is treading the path followed by democracies that descended into authoritarianism and dictatorship, former ambassadors to countries that underwent autocratic takeovers have warned.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/30/former-us-ambassadors-warn-authoritarianism

#usa #Trump

🇷🇺 Russian Force Generation and Technological Adaptations Update April 30, 2025 - ISW

https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-force-generation-and-technological-adaptations-update-april-30-2025

#Russia #russianarmy

🇪🇪🇺🇦 #Estonia may contribute a company of soldiers to a potential peace-keeping mission in #Ukraine as part of a “reassurance force” led by the UK and France, Prime Minister Kristen Michal said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-30/estonia-may-send-troops-to-ukraine-as-part-of-potential-mission

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🗣 Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Tuesday that the United States will end mediation unless #Russia and #Ukraine make "concrete proposals" on ending the war, his spokeswoman said.

https://www.barrons.com/news/rubio-warns-us-to-end-mediation-unless-concrete-proposals-from-russia-ukraine-4f7728d4

#usa