Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene on January 29 dismissed speculation that the United States had urged Lithuania to resume the transit of Belarusian potash fertilisers, saying the issue was being unnecessarily escalated. “We are escalating many issues that perhaps do not need to be escalated at all. One of them is the transit of fertilisers…
It will take months to restore Kyiv’s own electricity generation capacity, so power cuts will continue in the city for the foreseeable future. This assessment was made at a briefing by Oleksandr Kharchenko, Managing Director of the Energy Industry Research Center. He stressed that the period since January 9 had been the most difficult for…
The government has almost halved the number of RSD59 project dry cargo ships that are to be built as part of the program of preferential leasing of civilian ships, according to a decree of the Cabinet of Ministers. According to the document, which was noticed by “Vedomosti”, in 2023–2028, the State Transport Leasing Company (STLC)…
In 2025, a record number of counterfeit dairy products were detected in Russian stores, according to Rospotrebnadzor. Almost 18% of products in this category turned out to be fake. For comparison: in 2022, this figure was about 15%, in 2023 – 12%, and in 2024 – 13%. In the Rosselkhoznadzor noted that it is “technologically…
In 2025, more than 486,000 cars were recalled from buyers in Russia for technical reasons. Compared to 2024, during which just over 139,000 vehicles were recalled, the number of cars with various factory defects increased by 3.5 times. This follows from the data of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology, which were analyzed…
First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal held a meeting to review the energy supply situation in the Kharkiv region. He heard reports from the Head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, Oleh Syniehubov, the Head of Ukrenergo, Vitalii Zaichenko, and representatives of energy companies. The Kharkiv region continues to…
The authorities are monitoring the situation and collecting data from the regions to determine to what extent the recent bad weather conditions have affected orchards. Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Ludmila Catlabuga made the statement on January 28. The minister emphasized that so far no specific information had been received about orchards affected by…