Zelensky called on business to join the creation of an internal plan to strengthen Ukraine
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Zelensky called on business to join the creation of an internal plan to strengthen Ukraine

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Zelensky called on business to join the creation of an internal plan to strengthen Ukraine

One of the key directions of the new plan to strengthen Ukraine will concern the economy. That is why President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is calling on business to join in its development.

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  • One of the key areas of the new plan to strengthen Ukraine concerns the economy, the president calls on business to join in its development.
  • Ukraine seeks to unlock its economic potential through deregulation and support of entrepreneurship to strengthen sovereignty and fight against external aggression.
  • The internal plan for strengthening the country will include the spheres of economy, defense, social policy and other areas that will contribute to the growth and internal security of Ukraine.
  • The initiative to develop a plan is not an alternative to the Victory Plan, but it provides steps that Ukraine itself must take to achieve results in various areas of development.
  • According to preliminary data, the president has already given orders to develop a plan that is planned to be presented to Ukrainians by the end of this year in order to preserve unity and achieve success.

What will include the new plan to strengthen Ukraine

As the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky noted, an internal plan for strengthening the country is currently being prepared, where economic and business elements will have priority.

Every operating enterprise is an investment in the future of our country. All the jobs that are saved, every new job for our people, all the saved and new productions are actually part of the internal security guarantees for Ukraine now. And we have only to increase such guarantees.

Volodymyr Zelenskyi

Volodymyr Zelenskyi

President of Ukraine

The President explained that Ukraine seeks to unlock its economic potential through deregulation, creating conditions for healthy competition and supporting entrepreneurship in order to strengthen its sovereignty and ability to resist external aggression.

He also emphasized that Ukrainian businesses were invited to actively participate in the development of this plan.

Yulia Svyridenko heads this work, and the strategic vision of entrepreneurs will be taken into account. Just like our geopolitical goal is integration with Europe. This is the basis, said Zelensky.

Ukrainians should know what the path to victory looks like

As Ukrainian journalists managed to find out from their insiders in the President's Office, we are talking about a document that will refer to internal decisions in many areas.

What is important to understand is primarily about the military industry, defense, economy, social policy and others.

In addition, it is emphasized that this initiative is not an alternative to the Ukrainian President's Victory Plan.

According to the president's plan, unlike his Victory Plan, which concerns Western partners, it will foresee steps that Ukraine itself must take.

Another anonymous source confirmed to journalists that Volodymyr Zelenskyi had already given an order regarding the development of this plan.

According to preliminary data, it is planned to be created and presented to Ukrainians by the end of the year.

The goal is to do everything possible to preserve unity and achieve results in various areas of the country's development, the insider emphasized.

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They were scared of Ukrainian drones. Yandex Maps will hide the location of Russian refineries

Russian refineries
Source:  The Telegraph

A Moscow court has ordered Russian internet giant Yandex to hide maps and images of oil refineries from search results after a series of Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia's fuel infrastructure.

Points of attention

  • Ukrainian drones target Russian oil refineries, posing a serious threat to the fuel infrastructure of the aggressor country.
  • A Moscow court orders Yandex to remove maps and images of oil refineries from search results to safeguard these vulnerable facilities.
  • Russian regulators file a lawsuit against Yandex, requiring the tech company to hide detailed images of oil refineries targeted by drone strikes.
  • Ukrainian Defense Forces escalate attacks on Russian energy facilities, using drones and other means to disrupt fuel production and distribution.
  • The conflict in Ukraine raises concerns about the escalation of violence as both sides target critical infrastructure, affecting millions in the region.

Yandex will hide maps of Russian refineries after Ukrainian attacks

Yandex will destroy images of oil refineries that allegedly made them “extremely vulnerable” to Ukrainian kamikaze drones

According to the Russian news agency TASS, Yandex was ordered to clean up satellite and cartographic images of an oil refinery that was targeted by drone strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The requirement came after Russian regulators filed a lawsuit that found that detailed images of the country's oil refineries were readily available from Yandex on a service similar to Google Maps.

The technology company must begin "removing or retouching images of the facility's components, including workshops, compressor stations, tanks, and other elements, from the Yandex Maps platform," the resolution states.

The court said that Yandex's technology "makes the facility extremely vulnerable to enemy weapons."

The blocking is the first time the Russian government has ordered Yandex to remove information from public maps to support its military operations, TASS reported. Yandex declined to comment.

The lawsuit says the facility has been attacked by Ukraine four times, though it does not name the plant. It says the refinery operates “continuously to support the Russian army and navy” and that public access to the images “undermines national defense capabilities.”

The Telegraph has been able to identify several major oil and gas plants in Russia that have reportedly been targeted by Ukrainian forces using Yandex's mapping tools. Satellite imagery provides detailed views of several key sites, as well as panoramic drone shots and street views.

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Drone war: Ukraine responds to Russian attacks

Russia has launched a wave of air and drone strikes on Kyiv's power grid since invading Ukraine nearly three years ago. Russian forces have destroyed about half of Ukraine's domestic energy infrastructure and caused complete power outages since the war began.

Last year, Ukrainian forces began escalating their own attacks on the Kremlin's oil and gas facilities, with drones targeting plants deep inside Russia, some hundreds of miles from the border.

The Ukrainian Defense Forces have also bombed ammunition factories using kamikaze drones, fired rockets, and sabotaged Russian railways carrying fuel.

On December 22, dozens of Ukrainian drones attacked an oil depot in Russia's Oryol region, the second major strike on the facility this month. While Russia claimed to have shot down 20 drones, footage on social media showed the Steel Horse storage facility on fire.

Last year, Ukraine damaged factories in Tatarstan, which is located more than 750 miles from the border, and St. Petersburg.

Some of Ukraine's allies have expressed concern about Kyiv's decision to strike Russian infrastructure far from its own territory, fearing further escalation of a conflict that has already left 1 million soldiers killed or wounded.

Yandex under Western sanctions

Yandex was founded as a search engine in 1997, dominating the Internet search market in Eastern Europe and competing with Google. The tech company sometimes argued against the Kremlin's censorship demands, but the Russian state later took a "golden share" in the business.

After listing in the US over a decade ago, its value reached over $30bn (£24bn) in 2021.

However, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has seen the tech company hit with crippling sanctions from Western governments, and the Kremlin has sharply increased censorship of its search engine and news products.

After being blacklisted, Yandex's global business was split up, and last year it sold its Russian search division to local investors at a discounted price.

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