Category Russia-Ukraine

Russian sanctions

“I’m actually quite confident, but for a silly reason. There is no official pronouncement of what it means to breach sanctions. Nobody ever said anything about whether rubles payments breach sanctions or not, how these payments are organized. So it’s such…

UK spending in Ukraine

“Britain’s Conservative government is ramping up military spending for NATO’s proxy war against Russia. Last week Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed Ukraine’s parliament by videolink, pledging the dispatch of an additional £300 million of military equipment. Within days that has…

Russia Ukraine conflict

“Ukraine’s president has told the world’s finance ministers his country needs $7bn (£5.4bn) every month until the summer to keep functioning.He was addressing an International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank conference via video link from Kyiv.” — BBC

Weapons for Ukraine

“Unlike the early part of the war, when many countries seemed to compete to announce what they were providing Ukraine, the current race is being run largely in secret. Much of the coordination, including how to get matériel into Ukraine,…