Kyiv

• Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) want access to a location near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
• The IAEA is due to visit Ukraine and the Zaporizhzhia plant in the next week.
• The attack on the Nova Kakhovka dam in a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine unleashed flooding that devastated an area of about 600km², roughly the size of the city of Chicago.
• The attack, which is being blamed by many western analysts on Russia, happened a week before a scheduled visit of IAEA inspectors to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
• According to the IAEA, Zaporizhzhia – which is Europe’s largest nuclear power plant – now relies entirely on its sole remaining 750kv power line for off-site electricity.

Escalation logic

• The Russian army appears to be the benefactor in the short term as it scrambles to slow down Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
• This creates new levels of ambiguity in the war’s escalation logic.
• Escalation logic refers to the strategic decisions and actions taken to intensify a conflict, aiming to gain an advantage or deter the opponent.

Russian steps

• Russia’s war against Ukraine has followed a series of escalating steps.
• After the initial invasion, when the Russian offensive stalled in the summer of 2022, the Russian military chose to use cruelty against Ukrainian civilians.
• This escalation, however, negatively affected Russia’s economy and outlook as well, since the immediate and long-term forecasts do not look promising.

• For its first charitable venture, DIG Foundation has partnered with Ukrainian celebrity and champion of change Jamala, to create the exclusive NFT collection #WeAreUkraine.
• This charitable generative NFT collection of 14,850 NFTs - unique digital collectibles - will be available for purchase starting Wednesday, August 10 for 6 months, viewable on OpenSea.
• Three additional NFTs - video recordings of Jamala singing three Ukranian folk songs - will later be airdropped to random NFT holders, as a reward.
• Crypto donations and proceeds from NFT projects have become alternative funding streams for global emergencies we respond to like the conflict in Ukraine.

• The launch of the Eurasia chapter in 2021 will complement other professional education and peer networking efforts for compliance professionals throughout the region, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
• Chapter board members in all seven countries will separately organize and host ACAMS training events in English, Russian and seven regional languages.
• The ACAMS Eurasia Chapter is an important step toward removing barriers and enhancing trade between economies where the EBRD operates, he said.
• Officially launched on 23 June 2021, the ACAMS Eurasia Chapter will be jointly overseen by board members based in Yerevan, Baku, Tbilisi, Nur-Sultan, Bishkek, Chisinau and Kyiv.

• Arricano announces that the Kyiv local government itself announced today, in response to the continuing COVID pandemic, temporaryrestrictions on customer access to retail shopping centres from 20 March until 9 April 2021.
• As a result, stores, other than hypermarkets, pharmacies and some other essential stores, in Arricano's Prospekt and Rayon shopping centres in Kyiv will be closed over this period.