内容摘要：If the US government is spending more on debt interest repayments, it can affect budgets and public spending as it becomes more costly for the government to sustain itself.

If the US government is spending more on debt interest repayments, it can affect budgets and public spending as it becomes more costly for the government to sustain itself.

By summer, shipments began to slowly recover. But imports never returned to pre-invasion levels, peaking at about one-third of that amount at the end of 2022, before declining again over the following six months.“Apple stopped selling products in Russia in March 2022 and there’s been no change since then”, Apple told Al Jazeera in a statement, declining to comment on unofficial distribution channels.

Products produced by Apple’s competitor, Samsung, which also announced a suspension of exports after the invasion, followed a similar pattern, with shipments effectively stopping in April before recovering significantly by the end of 2022.In January 2022, about 351 tonnes of Samsung devices were imported into Russia, according to customs data, compared with only 19kg (41 pounds) in April.By October, shipments rebounded to about 135 tonnes, before again going into decline during 2023.

“Samsung does not operate retail stores in Russia. Shipments to Russia remain suspended,” the South Korean tech firm told Al Jazeera in an email.In the case of at least one major brand, imports appear to have recovered to pre-war levels.

Swedish appliance manufacturer Electrolux, which in September 2022 announced it would exit Russia completely, saw shipments of its products decline sharply throughout 2022, from about 1,600 tonnes in January to just 184 tonnes in September.

But by May 2023, shipments topped pre-war levels at some 2,000 tonnes, before again plunging sharply.COGAT, the Israeli military body responsible for civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory, confirmed on Friday that 107 trucks had entered the enclave the previous day, loaded with flour, medicine and equipment.

However, aid agencies and others have condemned Israel’s policy to allow only minimal volumes of aid into Gaza, which the Israeli military has been blockading for close to three months.They insist that the supplies are nowhere near enough for the millions trapped in the territory, and add that even the small amounts making it in are not making it to people due to Israeli attacks and looting.

The shipments follow Israel’s announcement on Sunday that it would permithumanitarian aid into the territory for the first time since implementing a total blockade in early March.