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Stay on top of Russia-Ukraine war 01-22-2025 developments on the ground with KyivPost fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated war maps.
US companies are skirting sanctions meant to cripple Russia’s economy. Despite stringent laws, enforcement struggles persist, leaving gaps for evasion that enable Moscow to wage war in Ukraine.
Editor’s Note: This is the latest installment in Kyiv Post’s Sanctions Busting series, an investigative collection of articles on how Russia continues to evade economic sanctions to wage war in Ukraine.
In a decisive move earlier this month, the administration of former President Joe Biden imposed fresh sanctions targeting Russia’s energy sector and its so-called “shadow fleet” of oil tankers.
While would-be insurrectionists rejoiced at the sentence commutations and outright pardons, police and politicians called the clemency a “betrayal” and an “outrageous insult to our judicial system”.
US President Donald Trump offered more than 1,500 pardons on Tuesday to rioters who stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021 on his behalf in an attempt to stop the certification of the presidential elections that Trump lost to Joe Biden by about seven million votes.
On that day, about 2,000 Trump loyalists, many of them armed, smashed through the windows and doors of the Capitol and overpowered police, killing one of them on the spot and injuring 174 others. Between heart attacks, succumbing to injuries and and even some ensuing suicides, the attacks left eight dead overall.
Divisions erupt in the EU Parliament as leaders debate how to handle Trump’s presidency and Musk’s influence on European politics, with some demanding action and others embracing the chaos.
How should the world deal with US President Donald Trump‘s disruptive return to the White House and the tempestuous forays of his billionaire ally Elon Musk into European affairs?
From one lawmaker clad in Stars and Stripes to celebrate, to a colleague warning Europe was acting like Trump’s “doormat,” the EU‘s divisions on the matter were on ample display Tuesday in the bloc’s parliament.
