The largest Ukrainian producer and exporter of sunflower oil, the Kernel agroholding, has decided on a complete technological shutdown of all its oil extraction plants due to massive Russian strikes on food industry enterprises, the company's press service reported on Thursday.

On November 12, Russia attacked Naftogaz facilities in Chernihiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions. This was reported by the company's press service.

Excess production capacity and dumping prices from Turkish companies pose a threat to Ukrainian production. Turkey is among the world's largest producers and exporters of welded steel pipes. In 2025, the country produced 4.7 million tonnes of this product (small and large diameters), of which 45.

The Ukrainian-Estonian defense technology company Farsight Vision and the German INTEC Group have agreed to jointly expand Farsight Vision's presence in Germany and to seek opportunities for joint defense projects.

The United Kingdom became the first country to impose sanctions against all ten major Russian oil producers. This is stated in a message on the British government's website on Thursday, 12 November.

OpenAI has developed and implemented Control Room — a system that allows stopping the operation of artificial intelligence models on research tasks in the event of a security threat. After receiving a stop command, the system blocks further generation of results within 35 seconds.