EUobserver

EU-backed reconstruction in Ukraine is drawing private investment mainly to profitable sectors and areas, rather than to the most heavily damaged regions, EUobserver reports. The report raises questions about whether recovery funding is reaching the places destroyed by war or simply following commercial returns.

EUobserver reports that a Chinese company best known for making app-connected sex toys has been supplying components used in Russian military technology deployed against Ukraine. The investigation says the firm's dual-use electronics slipped through because the EU's sanctions regime does not adequately cover such indirect component suppliers, exposing what the outlet calls a sanctions blind spot that European policymakers have yet to close.