The European Union may target Russian gold in a new sanctions package, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. U.S. President Joe Biden earlier announced that the G7 countries would ban imports of Russian gold, which is "a major export that rakes in tens of billions of dollars for Russia." Gold is a crucial asset for Russia's central bank, which has restricted access to some of its assets abroad because of the Western sanctions.
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Monday, October 27
Lukoil, one of Russia's largest oil producers, announced Oct. 27 that it plans to sell its foreign assets after new U.S. sanctions targeted the company and its subsidiaries.
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The pair allegedly gathered intelligence on Polish military personnel and infrastructure, including transport hubs used to supply Ukraine with foreign military aid.
Seventeen children and teenagers were rescued from temporarily occupied territories as part of the president’s Bring Kids Back UA initiative, Andriy Yermak said in a Telegram post on Oct. 7.
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Russian missile attacks on Kyiv over the weekend destroyed the warehouse of one of Ukraine's largest pharmaceutical distributors and a production facility of a popular coffee chain, reportedly causing at least $100 million in damage and losses.
Lego toys, manufactured at a Czech factory of the Danish Lego Group, continue to flow to Russia through a Dutch trading company, according to an investigation by the Czech publication Page Not Found.
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Orban is expected to meet Trump in Washington in the second half of the next week to discuss the sanctions, Peter Szijjarto, Hungary's foreign minister, told journalists on Oct. 27.
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"It's a unique product that no one else in the world possesses," Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed.
The 2000 agreement obligated both countries to dispose of 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium no longer required for defense purposes.
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By infiltrating Ukrainian positions in small infantry groups, Russia has accumulated around 200 troops within Pokrovsk, the General Staff reported. These personnel are engaging in "intense" small arms and drone clashes with Ukrainian troops in the city.
The man identified as Serhii K. was arrested in August near the Italian town of Rimini under an European arrest warrant, Reuters reported. The lawyer said the defense would appeal the ruling.
A Ukrainian strike on a dam near Belgorod, Russia, has caused water to begin flowing uncontrollably, reportedly cutting off Russian units that had crossed the Siverskyi Donets River near the Ukrainian town of Vovchansk in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine’s 16th Army Corps said on Oct. 26.
"The Russian economy is a wartime economy. Growth is virtually zero," U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CBS News.
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"Contraband" balloons launched from Belarus have disrupted air traffic four times in the last week. Lithuania has closed border crossings with Belarus for "an indefinite period" in response.
