#NEWS OF THE DAY:
ONE-OFF LAW FOR WARTIME ELECTIONS: Ruslan Stefanchuk, speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, has formed a working group to draft a specific, one-time law for holding elections during martial law, as reported by the Kyiv Post https://www.kyivpost.com/post/66784
RUSSIA’S #WARTIME #ECONOMY NEARS COLLAPSE: Despite maintaining strength throughout the war, Russia’s economy is nearing a breaking point. Plummeting #oil prices and massive debt in the defense sector threaten a systemic banking crisis by 2026, as reported by The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/22/russia-war-economy-ukraine/
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