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Ukraine struck a major oil refinery in Russia’s Yaroslavl, sparking a fire at a facility supplying fuel for military logistics.
Kyiv says the site processes ~15M tons of oil annually, producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Damage is still being assessed.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/26/ukraine-hits-major-refinery-in-yaroslavl/
For 50 months, the West has piled sanctions on Russia. 20 EU "packages." Loud promises to "cripple" Putin's war machine.
Today: Russia still occupies one-fifth of Ukraine. 2,500 civilians killed in 2025—the deadliest year yet.
A #B4Ukraine conference in Kyiv asks the question Western capitals avoid. Why didn't sanctions work? We're covering - keep tuned!
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/26/sanctions-on-russia-do-they-work-why-why-not-blame-changes/
#ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar
For four years, the message to multinationals has been one direction: leave.
Now the signals from the US administration are pointing the other way. Talk that Exxon could rebuild its Russian fossil fuel business—and that other firms might profit from a thaw—is reaching companies still deciding whether to exit, #B4Ukraine Executive Director Nezir Sinani told the coalition's conference.
An American law firm is preparing a class action against US chipmakers whose components are found inside Russian weapons.
The defendants include Texas Instruments, AMD, Intel, and Mouser Electronics, Bohdan Karnaukh of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University told the #B4Ukraine conference. The case argues the companies should be held responsible for their contribution to the Russian war effort.
Russia's endgame: sanctions lifted, Western companies back, occupied territories permanently part of Russia. Targeting foreign enablers, not just Russian firms, matters for the long run, said Jeremy Pizzi of Global Rights Compliance at B4Ukraine.
Russian corporations extract Ukrainian grain, but shadow-fleet tankers hauling it are owned by non-Russian middlemen in places like Liberia. Block the middlemen, Russia can't move it.
Two recent EU directives let member states confiscate assets tied to sanctions violations and transfer them to Ukraine.
Germany alone has over 2,000 active sanctions evasion investigations. One involves €700mn, Tetiana Khutor of the Institute of Legislative Ideas told the B4Ukraine conference. Lithuania, Poland, and Finland have hundreds of cases each.
None of the money has reached Ukraine. National budgets keep it. #B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar
A new Ukrainian proposal would impose a special tax on every multinational still operating in Russia & route the proceeds to Ukrainian recovery
The 2024 draft, called "sanction toll," was built with US Congress members, Institute of Legislative Ideas' Tetiana Khutor told #B4Ukraine conference. Then political winds shifted
Current US administration "is clear&publicly clear" that profiting from war is fine, Khutor said—a posture that froze the proposal's US track
#ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar
Russia has done $524bn in damage to Ukraine. Around $397bn in Russian state and private assets sits frozen abroad.
The amount actually transferred to Ukraine from confiscations: a little over $7mn, Tetiana Khutor of the Institute of Legislative Ideas told the B4Ukraine conference. 99% of all confiscations have happened inside Ukraine itself.
#B4Ukraine #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar
