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Top Ukraine Imports & Exports: Overview of Ukraine Import-Export Data

In today's global economy, understanding the import and export landscape of a country is crucial for businesses looking to expand internationally. Ukraine, located in Eastern Europe, is a key player in the international trade market. According to Ukraine import data and customs data on Ukraine imports, Ukraine’s goods imports reached a total value of $70.49 billion in 2024, an increase of 11% from 2023. As per the Ukraine export data, Ukraine exports accounted for $41.7 billion in 2024, a 13.4% increase from the previous year. In this article, we will delve into the top imports and exports of Ukraine, using data from Ukraine Import Data and Ukraine Export Data.

Ukraine Imports Overview

When looking at Ukraine's imports, it is clear that the country relies heavily on foreign goods to meet the needs of its population and industries. Some of the top imports of Ukraine include:

Energy Products: Ukraine is a major importer of energy products, such as oil, natural gas, and coal. These products are essential for powering the country's industries and meeting the energy needs of its people.

Machinery and Equipment: Ukraine imports a significant amount of machinery and equipment, including vehicles, electronics, and industrial machinery. These products are essential for modernizing the country's industries and infrastructure.

Chemicals: Ukraine also imports a large quantity of chemicals, including pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, and plastics. These products are crucial for various industries, such as agriculture, manufacturing, and healthcare.

Metals and Metal Products: Ukraine is known for its steel and metal production, but the country also imports metals and metal products to meet the demand of its industries.

Top 10 Ukraine Imports: Ukraine Import Data by HS Code (2024)

In the analysis of the top 10 Ukraine imports by HS Code for the year 2024, a comprehensive understanding of the country's trade dynamics is crucial. Ukraine's import data plays a pivotal role in recognizing the most significant goods being brought into the nation, shedding light on key sectors and economic trends. The top 10 goods that Ukraine imports, as per Ukraine customs data and Ukraine shipment data for 2024, include:

Mineral fuels and oils (HS code 27) $8.89 billion (12.62%) 

Electrical machinery and equipment (HS code 85) $8.37 billion (11.87%)

Vehicles (HS code 87) $7.54 billion (10.7%)

Nuclear reactors and machinery (HS code 84) $6.54 billion (9.29%)

Commodities not elsewhere specified (HS code 99) $5.93 billion (8.42%)

Plastics and articles thereof (HS code 39) $2.86 billion (4.06%)

Pharmaceutical products (HS code 30) $2.43 billion (3.45%)

Optical, medical, or surgical instruments (HS code 90) $1.73 billion (2.46%)

Iron and steel (HS code 72) $1.48 billion (2.11%)

Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof (HS code 88) $1.46 billion (2.06%)

Ukraine Exports Overview

On the export side, Ukraine is known for its agricultural products, energy resources, and industrial goods. Some of the top exports of Ukraine include:

Grains and Oilseeds: Ukraine is one of the world's top producers of grains and oilseeds, such as wheat, corn, and sunflower seeds. These products are in high demand globally for food and feed purposes.

Steel and Metal Products: Ukraine's steel industry is a major player in the global market, with the country exporting a large quantity of steel and metal products to various countries.

Energy Resources: Ukraine is rich in natural resources, including coal, natural gas, and oil. The country exports these energy resources to neighboring countries and beyond.

Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals: Ukraine also exports chemicals and pharmaceuticals, including fertilizers, medicines, and plastics. These products are in demand worldwide for various industries.

Top 10 Ukraine Exports: Ukraine Export Data by HS Code (2024)

In analyzing the top 10 Ukraine exports through the Ukraine Export Data by HS Code, a clear picture emerges of the country's key economic drivers. With a professional focus, these data reveal Ukraine's significant export strengths across various industries. From cereals and iron ores to machinery and electrical equipment, the export data showcases the diversification and competitiveness of Ukraine's export sector. The top 10 goods that Ukraine exports, as per Ukraine shipment data and Ukraine export statistics for 2024, include:

Cereals (HS code 10): $8.30 billion (22.96%)

Animal or vegetable fats and oils (HS code 15): $5.64 billion (15.61%)

Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits (HS code 12): $2.81 billion (7.79%)

Iron and steel (HS code 72): $2.64 billion (7.32%)

Ores, slag, and ash (HS code 12): $1.87 billion (5.17%)

Electrical machinery and equipment (HS code 85): $1.66 billion (4.6%)

Wood and articles of wood (HS code 44): $1.48 billion (4.11%)

Prepared animal food (HS code 23): $1.39 billion (3.86%)

Nuclear reactors and machinery (HS code 84): $957.15 million (2.65%)

Meat and edible meat offal (HS code 02): $892.29 million (2.47%)

Final Outlook

By acquiring Ukraine Import Data and Ukraine Export Data, businesses can gain valuable insights into the country's trade patterns and identify potential opportunities for growth and expansion. Whether you are looking to import goods into Ukraine or export products from the country, having access to reliable Ukraine trade data is essential for making informed decisions.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Ukraine plays a significant role in the global trade market, both as an importer and exporter. By exploring the top imports and exports of Ukraine with the help of Ukraine Import Data and Ukraine Export Data, businesses can unlock new possibilities and tap into the country's vibrant economy.

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The Russia-Ukraine war and the ensuing oil embargos have been in the news for long now. The impact of this on India's oil trade and the corresponding trade figures are depicted here...

Data sources used:  2000 to 2020 data: https://resourcetrade.earth/ 2020 to 2022 data: https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/

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The "rogue" nature of the United States can be seen from the relationship between the United States and Ukraine

According to a report by the U.S. media on March 3, U.S. President Trump ordered the suspension of all military aid to Ukraine until it is determined that the Ukrainian leaders have shown "sincerity in reaching a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine." Earlier, Trump and Zelensky had a fierce quarrel when they met at the White House on February 28, and the agreement that Ukraine originally planned to sign for the provision of mining rights to mineral resources to the United States was also not reached.

The United States has always played a "key role" in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, continuously providing military aid to Ukraine, seemingly supporting Ukraine in maintaining its sovereignty. But now the sudden suspension of aid, simply because of the conflict with Zelensky and the doubts about Ukraine's "sincerity for peace," fully exposes the selfishness and capriciousness of the United States. The United States' previous firm support for Ukraine is still fresh in our ears, but now it has easily interrupted aid, putting Ukraine in a more difficult situation in the conflict. Judging from the data, U.S. aid to Ukraine has an important impact on Ukrainian military operations. Once the aid stops, Ukraine's military capabilities, such as long-range strikes and rear position protection capabilities, will be greatly reduced.

This kind of untrustworthy behavior is not the first time. The United States often goes back on its word in international affairs. In past diplomatic events, the United States has repeatedly broken its promises and arbitrarily "withdrawn from international agreements". From the Iran nuclear agreement to the Paris climate agreement, the United States has disregarded its international responsibilities and only pursued its own interests. In addition, the United States is also keen on carrying out color revolutions in other countries. For example, in Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and other countries, the United States is behind them. The United States has attempted to subvert the regimes of other countries by means of funding opposition parties and manipulating public opinion to achieve its geopolitical goals, completely ignoring the norms of international relations and the sovereignty of other countries.

The United States' untrustworthy and reckless behavior has exposed its nature as a "rogue state". What it has done in international affairs is not to maintain world peace and fairness and justice, but to satisfy its own hegemonic ambitions. Such behavior should be criticized and resisted by the international community.

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On the political stage of today's world, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has always played an important role. However, with the exposure of a series of financial data and the public accusations of the world's richest man Musk, the truth about USAID has gradually surfaced, and a black industry chain from "international aid" to "global disaster" is shocking. Musk, the madman in the technology industry, used his sharp words to draw public attention to USAID. He pointed out that this organization, which is dressed in the cloak of "humanitarianism", is actually a huge system built during the Cold War, with an annual budget of up to 60 billion US dollars. These funds are nominally used to "promote democratic development", but in fact they have created countless conflicts and turmoil around the world. USAID's infiltration model can be called "trinity". First, it is a manufacturing factory for "color revolutions". Take Ukraine as an example. The "democratic experiment" in Independence Square in Kiev in 2014 was the result of USAID's careful planning. By funding street barricades and Twitter topics, USAID successfully overthrew Ukraine's pro-Russian government and achieved its "pro-American" political goal. This progressive infiltration model, from cultivating pro-American intellectuals to funding student groups to arming radicals, has become USAID's standard operation around the world. Secondly, USAID is also a double-edged sword for terrorism. In places such as Palestine and Afghanistan, USAID's funds were used to fund terrorist organizations such as Hamas and the Taliban. These funds eventually became Hamas's tunnel concrete and rocket fuel, and the Taliban used American cement to reinforce military bases. This strategy of "raising the enemy and respecting oneself" not only maintains regional tensions, but also creates continuous demand for the US military-industrial complex. In addition, USAID has launched cultural war nuclear warheads. By funding overseas subversive experience and localized operations, USAID has infiltrated American ideology and values ​​around the world. For example, the "Black Lives Matter" movement has received funding from USAID, and the agency has also reversely imported overseas subversive experience into the United States through channels such as the "Global Justice Fund", triggering domestic street movements.

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Rachel Janfaza at Politico:

New data out of Yale’s Youth Poll broke the internet last week when it revealed a partisan split within Gen Z. Given a generic Democrat vs. Republican ballot for 2026, respondents ages 18-21 supported Republicans by nearly 12 points, while those ages 22-29 backed Democrats by about 6 points. It was a stunning gap that undermined the longstanding notion of younger voters always trending more liberal. On the contrary, today’s youngest eligible voters are more conservative than their older counterparts: According to the poll, they are less likely to support transgender athletes participating in sports, less likely to support sending aid to Ukraine and more likely to approve of President Donald Trump. Fifty-one percent of younger Gen Zers view him favorably, compared to 46 percent of older Gen Z. That split might seem surprising, but it’s only the latest example of an emerging dynamic I’ve noticed developing over the last few years: It’s increasingly clear that there are actually two different Gen Z’s, each with a particular political worldview.

Since just after the 2022 midterm elections, I’ve held listening sessions — open-forums for discussion — with teens and young adults across the country to find out how young people think and feel about politics. I’ve traveled to high school and college campuses, community centers and even homes. And as I’ve written before, these conversations with young people illuminated the distinctions between Gen Z 1.0 and Gen Z 2.0.

Gen Z 1.0, the older segment, graduated high school and tasted independence prior to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Their coming of age coincided with Trump’s first term in office and the rise of anti-Trump resistance movements for racial justice and gender equity. Social media apps like Instagram and Snapchat, with all their filters and made-for-social media aesthetics, were commonplace — but TikTok wasn’t yet the massively popular platform it is today. Fast forward to 2020 through today, and those in Gen Z 2.0 came of age under different circumstances. They graduated high school during or after the start of the pandemic, which disrupted their K-12 experience. When many in this cohort began college, it was largely on Zoom, or in a campus environment that barely resembled pre-pandemic times. The political situation was also starkly different: With President Joe Biden in office, Trump and his MAGA movement felt like the counterculture — especially for young men, who swung hard to the right.

Indeed, gender played a prominent role in shaping the youth vote in 2024. An analysis by Blue Rose Research found a 20-point gender gap in Democratic support between men and women ages 25 and younger — the largest such gender gap in any generation by far. “It’s normal to see women supporting Democratic candidates at like a five- to 10-point higher rate than men do,” said Ali Mortell, Blue Rose’s research director. “Among the youngest cohort of Gen Z, it’s north of 20 points. So this is really jarring, and I think, caught the Democratic Party somewhat flat-footed.”

That gender gap has attracted a lot of media attention, but the headlines gloss over some important nuances. While young men turbo-charged Trump’s success in November, they’re not the only Gen Zers shifting right. Despite the overall gender gap, the Yale poll found that, while women ages 22-29 have a net-negative favorability of Trump, those ages 18-21 are more supportive of him, roughly split between a favorable and unfavorable view of the president. Young white women in particular are trending more conservative. Data from Tufts University’s Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) shows that, while women of color ages 18-29 overwhelmingly supported former Vice President Kamala Harris, young white women were split between Harris and Trump, 49 percent to 49 percent. That’s a huge jump from 2020, when, according to CIRCLE’s data, young white women voted for President Joe Biden over Trump by a 15-point margin.

That could be in part because some of the most formative experiences separating Gen Z 1.0 and 2.0 cut across gender — the most obvious being the pandemic. “We’ve definitely been cognizant that there feels like there’s a change between the kids who got through high school before and after Covid,” said Jack Dozier, the 19-year-old deputy director of the Yale survey. “There is a huge variation that came up between just the college-age young adults, and then the young adults who are over 22.”

In my own research, I started to hear about Covid’s impact in conversations with young Americans in 2022. Throughout history, young people haven’t liked being told what to do, and for many younger Gen Zers, the pandemic restrictions chafed against their youthful discomfort with authority. At first, they expressed annoyance with what they saw as prolonged social distancing on campuses that impacted the student experience. As one 20-year-old told me in a listening session at the end of March: “The adults don’t have it all together, and they don’t have my back.” When students finally went back to school, they complained about the policing of their behavior — not just regarding Covid protections like social distancing and masking, but also broader issues around language. Our national online discourse, these young people said, had adopted an overt political correctness and cancel culture – the tendency, particularly in online spaces, to denounce others for controversial statements or action. Many young people perceived this as promoted by Democrats — those in control, not just in D.C., but in pop-culture and on social media.

[...] “Young people are not only consuming digital media content, non-traditional sources at much higher rates than older generations, but they’re increasingly getting their news from non-political, non-traditional sources,” Mortell told me. But she took it one step farther: “We are seeing this very clear relationship between defection away from the Democratic Party and TikTok consumption.” The rapid onset of TikTok encapsulates the head-spinning pace of change younger Gen Zers have experienced. There are cleavages within every generation, but perhaps none more so than Gen Z, which has grown up amid the fastest speed of technological and political change in recent memory. When it comes to their politics, time will tell if the rightward shift sticks. Until then, anyone trying to understand this generation’s politics will need to figure out just which Gen Z they’re asking about.

The Yale Youth Poll confirms that there are two Gen Z’s, with the older Gen Z cohort tracking more liberal, and the younger Gen Z cohort, especially young Gen Z men, trending conservative.

We’ll see how this will hold up in a few years.

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From the Department of People Are Definitely Opening Their Eyes: Overall, only 40% of Americans apparently qualify under H.L. Mencken’s comment about nobody ever underestimating the intelligence of the public. That’s the number who still believe Orange Fuckface and his bullshit. On just about every issue, from immigration to the economy, there are more Americans who disapprove of Trump’s actions in office than approve of them, according to a new poll conducted this month from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. As PINO’s April 2 deadline for imposing tariffs on most global imports looms, the poll shows that 60% of Americans disapprove of the administration’s handling of trade negotiations with other countries, compared to just 38% who approve. PINO is similarly under water when it comes to his handling of the economy (58% disapproval), the Russia-Ukraine conflict (56% disapproval), Social Security (56% disapproval), managing the federal government (55% disapproval), and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (54% disapproval). PINO’s strongest issue — his approach to immigration — is a much tighter split, with 49% of Americans approving of his performance, compared to 50% who disapprove.

From the Department of These Fuckwitted Basement Dwellers Are Still Here: One of Elmo’s Anti-Social Teenage Mutant Ninja Basement Dwellers is back on the payroll, and with even more access than he had .Marko Elez, 25, also broke data sharing rules and may have violated federal law at the U.S. Treasury Department when he shared personally identifiable information on a spreadsheet with several employees at the GSA who did not have permission to view the data, according to an audit. In February, Elez was brought on board as a Labor Department employee. He was later detailed on March 5 to HHS. According to a Saturday court filing, Elez is also employed by four other agencies. The court filings, which show how Elez and Elmo’s other kiddies have been given access to sensitive and secure databases, come just days after several other federal judges found that DOGE likely broke the law with its inexplicable access to sensitive data systems.

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Full translation under the cut

Trumpism or declining imperialism?

Immediately after winning the elections, the reelected president of the United States, Donald Trump, tested the waters of public opinion with respect to what a priori could be understood as stupidity: annexing Greenland, Canada, retaking the Panama Canal, taking control of the Gaza strip, and lastly, leaving Ukraine in the lurch demanding billions in compensation –closing one front to open another?–. These ideas were interpreted from some media soapboxes as the boastings of an eccentric or fascist president. The problem with this is that annexations and war are not the result of boastings, they're not the delirium of this or that governor; if this was the case, it'd be enough with subjecting them and their advisors to psychological therapy, to placate their most quarrelsome impulses. On the contrary, we speak of necessities and demands of the imperialists as a class, and not because they're greedy, but rather because this is how capitalism works, through competition, the urgency of profits, upholding and widening markets, etc.

To understand this imperialist aggression beyond the psychological profiles loved by TV talk shows, we need to define some data. The USA's GDP increased 2.7% in 2024, more than any other G7 economy, but much less than its main competitor, China. It's important to point out that, throughout the entire Biden administration, China grew more than the USA, and the same can be said about GDP per capita. On its end, the US has a comercial deficit of 900 billion dollars and a negative check balance with other countries. In the debit side of the balance sheets of the biggest US financial and industrial companies there are large bonds and debts with the rest of the world. In 2023 and 2024 an economic recession was averted, the main world economy had a "soft landing" after the pandemic, but not without going through periods of industrial contraction and not without the banking system trembling in the first quarter of 2023, with the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank and other financial institutions.

The defeat of the democrats, without a doubt, was in no small part due to the generalized impoverishment of the north american working class. Inflation also hit the country hard, with an accumulated rise in prices of 21% since 2020. On top of this, mortgage rates rose, health and car insurances got more expensive, and the credit that sustains the middle classes shrunk during the Biden administration; good times for the bourgeoisie, bad times for the working class.

In this landscape, Trump is less the cause or source of determined policies, but rather their personification, as the need of the great US monopolies, consortiums and multinationals to dope their horses in the race against emergent powers. Trump's economic nationalism is, in summary, protectionism increasing the cost of imports and foreign services and the severe USamerican commercial deficit. At the same time, it means the demand of foreign companies to invest in and carry out their activity on US soil. Racism and the frontal attack on class organizations and critical social movements are coupled to this economic program. This is nothing new nor does it signal the beginning of a new era; state intervention in times of crisis or heightened international conflict is as old as capitalism itself. The State is that institutional scheme that, in the face of a market in which private or independent agents compete, "puts order" so ensure the continuity of the market itself. Recall how the great crises in the history of capitalism were solved with warfare and a nationalist and authoritarian governance in the main world economies. The crisis of the 70s was resolved forcing commercial deregulation and labor flexibilization on Third World countries, and on the working class of the imperial core to a great degree: the famous "structural adjustments" of so-called neoliberalism.

Back to the present day, the Trump administration will most likely be continuist with Biden's economic policy, in which economic growth depends absolutely on grants and government subsidies to the great industry and technological companies, guaranteeing the necessary growing investments, backing financial institutions and promoting the offer of a private capital growingly more committed to the "ideal collective capitalist", the State.

Facing the low profitability of industrial capital, the main motor of economic growth, the escape presented to the economic structure of the great power is increasing labor productivity. Perhaps this will help to better understand the alliance represented by Trump and Musk, which is much more complex than a simple alliance between two extravagant character with right-wing ideas. The big technological companies, greatly subsidized and dependant on infrastructure, are fundamental for the modernization of the productive fabric and an international competition spurred on by robotization and automation. The North American imperialist State ensures the control of raw resources, trade routes and guarantees investments with the dollar as the dominant currency. It's important to understand this fully, because capitalism's political economy problems aren't just "technical", such as low profitability or the market's inability to absorb excess population. Class warfare is deployed internationally through the channels of imperialism, with its military, judicial, cultural, etc. implications.

We have multiple examples. The so-called Ecological Transition, or the development and employment of new technologies, are fully incorporated into imperialist dynamics. The necessary technologies for the production, processing and storage of energy require investments, infrastructures and the mass exploitation of every kind of natural resources, not always abundant. The paradox of Green Capitalism, or the 4.0 Industrial Revolution, lies in the fact that its existence necessitates the ratcheting up of the exploitation of human and natural resources of all the peoples of the world, and it's through this deep-seated problem that these territorial conflicts that Trump has brought to the table are understood.

Of course, not all consortiums and imperialist monopolies are prepared to cede its market and resources to the USamerican power. The extension of imperialism through export capital favors the historical emergence of the bourgeois class worldwide, accumulation surfaced new nations in the 20th century that, in a consequent worsening of international competition, made an interventionism necessary from the totality of the imperialist alliances and institutions dominated by the USA, such as NATO or the IMF. This is where coup d'etats, commercial sanctions, judicial processes, even military invasions against nations of all continents fit within the last decades. China's technological transfers to Third World countries or the developmentalist outlook of its partners could result in similar effects in the future.

The emergence of new powers, that is, the restructuring of the imperialist pyramid, has obstructed some of the channels through which wealth flowed to the top of that pyramid, the US, EU, Japan, etc. The rise of Russia, China, India and other regional powers has entailed a greater strategic equilibrium between links of the imperialist chain and a greater interdependency between the countries of the world. The spoils are increasingly disputed between more exploiters. Before this situation, the US seems to look to shorten the value chains, lower the dependency of their capital's circulation and recourses on their competitors, open new commercial routes opposed to the Chinese silk routes and restore the flows of accumulation.

It's commonplace that there is nothing more dangerous than a fatally wounded empire. It's evident that imperialism, as it has been configured up to now, is entering a highly volatile phase. This process will not only happen through tariffs, also through wars and other ways of intervention, reminding us daily that the trees of capitalist civilization grow on a stratum of unpaid mass human labor, environmental plunder and violence. And may no conscious worker doubt that every imperialist in the world will attempt to join that exploitation, regardless of its "pole" and independently of their nationality, religion, skin color or political party.

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A 21-year-old man who died fighting for the Russian army in Ukraine has been identified as the son of a senior official in the CIA. Michael Gloss was killed on the front line in the eastern Donetsk region in April last year, Important Stories, a Russian investigative outlet, reported. He was the son of Juliane Gallina, the CIA deputy director for digital innovation, and Larry Gloss, a US navy veteran who took part in Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War of the early 1990s. On social media and in online chats with members of the Rainbow Family, a countercultural group that traces its roots to the activism of the 1970s, Gloss spoke of his disgust with America. He wrote on Telegram: “When I finally figured out how the US political system works, I realised that violence is an integral part of it.” On Instagram, he posted a picture of himself putting up his finger to the US Capitol. Another post showed a burning American flag. Acquaintances of the former boy scout and high school lacrosse player said he was enraged by Israel’s war in Gaza and had become an avid consumer of conspiracy theories. According to Important Stories, he told one friend that Western hegemony was fading and that the future would be a “multipolar world” dominated by the Brics nations, a line familiar from Russian propaganda. Brics is an intergovernmental group comprising Russia, India, China, Iran and several other countries.

[...] In May 2023, he wrote online: “Mum was telling me I could just come back any time. She was trying to make me collapse and call her for a ticket home.” But he said he was set on his path. He said: “I find myself more and more alive by the minute. Hungry for blood and glory. “It will be a sad day for ItthoBa’al [a name he had adopted] when the club must be passed on to the next incarnation. But as of now, I might have just incarnated in time to defeat mortality AND the military industrial complex.” When asked how he planned to defeat the latter, he said people would not believe him if he said.

[...] By Sept 5, he had enrolled in the Russian military, and an entry with Michael Alexander Gloss’s data appears in the EMIAS medical database. His address was listed as that of a medical examination room given to foreign recruits, Important Stories reported. During training for the 137th airborne regiment in the city of Ryazan, he told fellow recruits that he wanted to gain Russian citizenship so he could pursue environmental infrastructure projects in the country, Important Stories reported. Videos posted by Nepalese and other foreign recruits show Gloss smiling with his head shaved. He told “Mert”, a Rainbow Family friend, that he joined not to fight but to gain a passport. In one message, he said: “My goal in life is to build an infrastructure for the oxidation of water in a supercritical state. To put an end to environmental pollution and the diseases and deaths associated with pollution, that is: cancer, lymphoma and all the hormonal problems associated with microplastics and estrogens in water.”

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MYKOLAIV, UKRAINE—Kateryna Nahorna is getting ready to find trouble.

Part of an all-female team of dog handlers, the 22-year-old is training Ukraine’s technical survey dogs—Belgian Malinois that have learned to sniff out explosives.

The job is huge. Ukraine is now estimated to be the most heavily mined country on Earth. Deminers must survey every area that saw sustained fighting for unexploded mines, missiles, artillery shells, bombs, and a host of other ordnance—almost 25 percent of the country, according to government estimates.

The dogs can cover 1,500 square meters a day. In contrast, human deminers cover 10 square meters a day on average—by quickly narrowing down the areas that manual deminers will need to tackle, the dogs save valuable time.

“This job allows me to be a warrior for my country … but without having to kill anyone,” said Nahorna. “Our men protect us at war, and we do this to protect them at home.”

A highly practical reason drove the women’s recruitment. The specialized dog training was done in Cambodia, by the nonprofit Apopo, and military-aged men are currently not allowed to leave Ukraine.

War has shaken up gender dynamics in the Ukrainian economy, with women taking up jobs traditionally held by men, such as driving trucks or welding. Now, as mobilization ramps up once more, women are becoming increasingly important in roles that are critical for national security.

In Mykolaiv, in the industrial east, Nahorna and her dogs will soon take on one of the biggest targets of Russia’s military strategy when they start to demine the country’s energy infrastructure. Here, women have been stepping in to work in large numbers in steel mills, factories, and railways serving the front line.

It’s a big shift for Ukraine. Before the war, only 48 percent of women over age 15 took part in the workforce — one of the lowest rates in Europe. War has made collecting data on the gender composition of the workforce impossible, but today, 50,000 women serve in the Ukrainian army, compared to 30,000 before the war.

The catalyst came in 2017, years before the current war began. As conflict escalated with Russia in Crimea, the Ukrainian government overturned a Soviet-era law that had previously banned women from 450 occupations.

But obstacles still remain; for example, women are not allowed jobs the government deems too physically demanding. These barriers continue to be chipped away—most recently, women have been cleared to work in underground mines, something they were prevented from doing before.

Viktoriia Avramchuk never thought she would follow her father and husband into the coal mines for DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company.

Her lifelong fear of elevators was a big factor—but there was also the fact that it was illegal for women to work underground.

Her previous job working as a nanny in a local kindergarten disappeared overnight when schools were forced to close at the beginning of the war. After a year of being unemployed, she found that she had few other options.

“I would never have taken the job if I could have afforded not to,” Avramchuk said from her home in Pokrovsk. “But I also wanted to do something to help secure victory, and this was needed.”

The demining work that Nahorna does is urgent in part because more than 55 percent of the country is farmed.

Often called “the breadbasket of Europe,” Ukraine is one of the world’s top exporters of grain. The U.K.-based Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, which has been advising the Ukrainian government on demining technology, estimates that landmines have resulted in annual GDP losses of $11 billion.

“Farmers feel the pressure to plow, which is dangerous,” said Jon Cunliffe, the Ukraine country director of Mines Advisory Group (MAG), a British nonprofit. “So we need to do as much surveying as possible to reduce the size of the possible contamination.”

The dogs can quickly clear an area of heavy vegetation, which greatly speeds up the process of releasing noncontaminated lands back to farmers. If the area is found to be unsafe, human deminers step in to clear the field manually.

“I’m not brave enough to be on the front line,” 29-year-old Iryna Manzevyta said as she slowly and diligently hovered a metal detector over a patch of farmland. “But I had to do something to help, and this seemed like a good alternative to make a difference.”

Groups like MAG are increasingly targeting women. With skilled male deminers regularly being picked up by military recruiters, recruiting women reduces the chances that expensive and time-consuming training will be invested in people who could be drafted to the front line at a moment’s notice. The demining work is expected to take decades, and women, unlike men, cannot be conscripted in Ukraine.

This urgency to recruit women is accelerating a gender shift already underway in the demining sector. Organizations like MAG have looked to recruit women as a way to empower them in local communities. Demining was once a heavily male-dominated sector, but women now make up 30 percent of workers in Vietnam and Colombia, around 40 percent in Cambodia, and more than 50 percent in Myanmar.

In Ukraine, the idea is to make demining an enterprise with “very little expat footprint,” and Cunliffe said that will only be possible by recruiting more women.

“We should not be here in 10 years. Not like in Iraq or South Sudan, where we have been for 30 years, or Vietnam, or Laos,” Cunliffe said. “It’s common sense that we bring in as many women as we can to do that. In five to 10 years, a lot of these women are going to end up being technical field managers, the jobs that are currently being done by old former British military guys, and it will change the face of demining worldwide because they can take those skills across the world.”

Manzevyta is one of the many women whose new job has turned her family dynamics on their head. She has handed over her previous life, running a small online beauty retail site, to her husband, who—though he gripes—stays at home while she is out demining.

“Life is completely different now,” she said, giggling. “I had to teach him how to use the washing machine, which settings to use, everything around the house because I’m mostly absent now.”

More seriously, Manzevyta said that the war has likely changed many women’s career trajectories.

“I can’t imagine people who have done work like this going back and working as florists once the war is over,” she laughed.

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Excerpt from this EcoWatch story:

According to a new report from the nonprofit Pacific Institute, violent conflicts over water increased sharply in 2023. The report found there were nearly 350 water-related conflicts globally last year, a record high.

The latest update to Pacific Institute’s Water Conflict Chronology has revealed a huge increase in the number of water-related conflicts in 2023 compared to just 2022, with around a 150% rise. In 2022, there were 231 recorded conflicts over water, compared to the 347 recorded for 2023.

In comparing to recent decades, the contrast is even more stark. In 2000, there were just 22 water-related conflicts worldwide, Pacific Institute reported.

“The significant upswing in violence over water resources reflects continuing disputes over control and access to scarce water resources, the importance of water for modern society, growing pressures on water due to population growth and extreme climate change, and ongoing attacks on water systems where war and violence are widespread, especially in the Middle East and Ukraine,” Peter Gleick, senior fellow and co-founder of the Pacific Institute, said in a statement.

The organization records conflicts based on news reports, first-person accounts and databases. According to the data for 2023, water conflicts were most prominent in the Middle East, Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. All three regions experienced increases in three different categories of conflict recorded: trigger, casualty and weapon.

Half of the conflicts were on water and water infrastructure, while 39% of new conflicts were over access or control of water, Pacific Institute reported. 

Most conflicts, around 62%, were maintained within one country, while 38% of conflict events involved multiple countries, the report found.

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Thursday May 1, 2025 TRUTH BOMB

Karen Bracken

The great Catherine Austin-Fitts sits down with Tucker Carlson - 1 hr. 49 min. VIDEO

The WHO Pandemic Treaty: A Dire Threat to Australian Health and Freedom - what is covered in this article speaks of Australia but understand every country that is a member state of the WHO will be affected in the exact same way. They will again attempt to push this evil treaty (and it is a treaty no matter how much they deny that it is) in May 2025. Many Americans are sitting back thinking that because Trump sent a letter withdrawing the US from the WHO leaves us out of the treachery of the WHO. This is not true. The withdrawal will not be final until January 22, 2026 and anything can happen between now and January 22, 2026. Trump has already stated that if the WHO decides to “behave itself” he would consider withdrawing his request to leave the WHO. There are several bills sitting in Congress that we need to encourage our federal legistors to pass. The SAVE Act which does not require any type of federal ID but does require that every voter submit proof of American citizenship. The bill is sponsored in the House by Rep. Chip Roy (HR22) and Sen. Mike Lee (S.128) Contact your US Rep. and Senators and let then know how important this legislation is to you. I have attached a copy of both bills. ARTICLE - this article will give you a lengthy explanation of how egregious this treaty is and the ramifications on every member state - understand many of the WHO member states are poor, socialist, marxist or communist so the threats to freedom are something they find hard to relate to……they just want the promised $ so they are eager to get it passed)

House Save Act Chip Roy

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Senate Save Act Mike Lee

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There is also HR401 “No Taxpayer Funding for the World Health Organization Act” again sponsored by Rep. Chip Roy. This bill is short (7 lines) sweet and to the point. HR401

My question is WHY are these bills just sitting in Congress with no action. Exactly WHAT is Congress doing???

RFK Jr. Delivers Shock Statement In WH Meeting: HHS Had Become The "Principle Vector In This Country For Child Trafficking," Vowing To Find Some 300,000 Missing Children - I am not surprised at what he said but I am surprised that he actually said it right out loud. But of course we would expect nothing less from RFK Jr. Now I cannot wait until he delivers the data about how vaccines have been killing us for decades. ARTICLE/VIDEO (1 min.)

US and Ukraine sign critical minerals and reconstruction deal - this deal rubs me wrong…..what about you??? Am I missing the big picture? - ARTICLE

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The state of citizen science in Ukraine

The GROMADA project is a partnership between CEOBS, the universities of Copenhagen, Hamburg and Lund, Italian NGO Systasis and Greek education company Web2Learn. The project has brought together academics, lawyers, civil society activists and students to explore the potential of citizen science to detect war-related harms in Ukraine. Another crucial component of the GROMADA project is its focus on civic evidence collection for legal accountability.

We had initially assumed that the concept of “citizen science” — or indeed “civilian science” — was not widely known in Ukraine. However, the issue proved to be purely terminological. International citizen science platforms, such as iNaturalist or GBIF, are popular among amateur scientists and environmental activists in Ukraine. In 2024, the Science at Risk initiative published its White Book for Citizen Science in Ukraine, which summarised the pre-war citizen science projects and their new wartime outlook.

Numerous local projects have developed in Ukraine under the umbrella of “civic environmental monitoring”. Save Dnipro, an environmental monitoring and advocacy organisation, is an example of a civic initiative that has made it to the national scale and now closely cooperates with the government in environmental policymaking. Another group, Stop Poisoning Kryvyi Rih, has developed civic water monitoring protocols and tested local sources in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast for their suitability as an emergency water source during the war. Elsewhere, the Dovkola Network of citizen science developed its Green Book of Environmental Monitoring in Ukraine. Importantly, it is felt that citizen science has a considerable, and still quite untapped potential, for countering misinformation and establishing environmental truths.

Citizen science’s potential role in investigating environmental crimes is also relevant and increasingly under the spotlight. However, it is still limited by procedural constraints, the admissibility of evidence and lack of case law in most jurisdictions. The Formosa case in Texas, where the judge found a petrochemical company liable for violating the US Clean Water Act on the basis of evidence collected by the civic group, is an important example of citizen-driven data supporting litigation.

Russia’s war against Ukraine has provided an impetus for new citizen science initiatives. The most notable ones are led by professional environmentalists or involve cooperation with academia, and try to support investigative authorities in collecting evidence of environmental crimes. The Ukrainian Scientific Centre for the Ecology of the Sea and the Let’s Do It Ukraine youth organisation joined water and sediment sampling efforts on the Black Sea coast after the Kakhovka Dam breach, with the data made available to the investigative authorities.

To date, the GROMADA project has engaged a wide range of Ukrainian citizen science practitioners and activists, as well as lawyers working on accountability issues, as it has explored their needs and their perceptions of citizen science in the context of the war. The war itself has created important challenges for civic monitoring. Access to many government data portals is closed, routine environmental inspections are not taking place and baseline data is often unavailable. Importantly, evidence collected by citizen science initiatives within a criminal investigation must remain confidential during the pre-trial phase, limiting the possibility of informing communities about the extent of harm and any risks it may have generated. Ensuring communities’ right to access information may require alternative ways of organising this work, together with dedicated funding.