🇭🇺🛢 Hungary Scrambles To 'Circumvent' US Sanctions On Russian Oil Majors

In press statements, Orban emphasized that banning cheap and reliable oil and gas from Russia would significantly increase the energy bills of the Hungarian people. "We are still fighting. So, we haven't lost the battle yet. We need serious maneuvers. We need leadership that will defend this. We are being pressured."

Orban said he has spoken with MOL Group about the sanctions, which come into effect in November. "We are working on how to circumvent this sanction," he said in an interview with state radio Kossuth.

On Thursday, Reuters reported that Germany is seeking an exemption from US sanctions on Rosneft's German business, citing a person with direct knowledge of government discussions of the matter.

After the US sanctions were announced, several German banks said sanctions could stop them from dealing with the local energy supplier.

Reuters notes that Rosneft's German business is controlled by the German government but is Russian-owned. "It is a key supplier, routing and refining oil to petrol pumps and some airports in Europe's biggest economy," the agency reported.

The Hungarian economy is already not performing too well. With parliamentary elections scheduled for 2026, an increase in fuel prices could be enough to end Viktor Orban's 15 year reign and allow the pro-EU opposition to assume power.

📝: Trump may have "accidentally" toppled the government of the only European leader that stuck out for him since 2016 uninterruptedly. As the saying went, "To be an enemy of the U.S. is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal".

🔗 https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/hungary-scrambles-circumvent-us-sanctions-russian-oil-majors

🇺🇸 Recent Layoff Announcements:

1. UPS: 48,000 employees
2. Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees
3. Intel: 24,000 employees
4. Nestle: 16,000 employees
5. Accenture: 11,000 employees
6. Ford: 11,000 employees
7. Novo Nordisk: 9,000 employees
8. Microsoft: 7,000 employees
9. PwC: 5,600 employees
10. Salesforce: 4,000 employees

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📝 Fugitive Caesar: 200,000 jobs destroyed today, in a weak economy. This is just offshoring to India and President Trump needs apply tariffs, threaten to pull government contracts, and put restrictions on digital remote work to make it stop.

🇧🇷🇧🇷⚰️❗️ — Residents found several bodies of eliminated Comando Vermelho narcoterrorist in the little forested that separates the two Favela Complexes, with others still being searched for by their families in the Penha and Alemão Complexes

🇧🇷🇧🇷⚰️❗️ — Several corpses of eliminated CV narcoterrorists are now being found at night in the Field of Vacaria, an area that crosses to Complexo do Alemão.

Residents report a "horror scene", with several dead narco corpses spread across the region.

🇧🇷🇧🇷⚰️ — The body count continues following the mega-operation led by the Governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Cláudio Castro, against the criminal group Comando Vermelho (CV). More bodies are being removed from the Vila Cruzeiro community in Penha.

🇧🇷🇧🇷 — The Public Defender's Office of Rio de Janeiro confirms 132 deaths in a mega-operation against the Comando Vermelho (CV). This is currently the deadliest police operation in Latin American history.

🇺🇸 🇧🇦 🇷🇸 US lifts sanctions on Republika Srpska officials

The US Department of the Treasury has removed from the sanctions list President Milorad Dodik, Serbian member of the Presidency Željka Cvijanović, President of the National Assembly Nenad Stevandić, and others who had sanctions imposed in the previous period.

Sanctions have also been lifted on other individuals from Republika Srpska who were on the US Office of Foreign Assets Control list.

🇷🇺🇻🇪🇨🇺⁉️ — TRACKED: A Russian Ilyushin Il-76TD (RA-79765) has departed Caracas, Venezuela, and is en route to Havana, Cuba.

➡️This same aircraft, which landed in Caracas three days ago, has been identified in flight monitoring reports as being suspected of transporting arms from Russia to Venezuela.

➡️These claims regarding its cargo remain unverified by official sources.

🇷🇺🇨🇺🇳🇮⁉️ — TRACKED: The Russian Ilyushin Il-76TD cargo aircraft, registration RA-78765, has departed from Havana, Cuba.

➡️Its confirmed destination is Managua, Nicaragua.

🇱🇹🇧🇾 Balloons flying into Lithuania from Belarusian airspace are impeding operations at the Vilnius Airport.

🇷🇺 ISW continues to assess that Russia is increasingly engaging in covert and overt attacks against Europe and that ongoing Russian airspace violations and non-conventional activity are likely part of ”Phase Zero” — Russia’s broader informational and psychological condition-setting phase – to prepare for a possible NATO-Russia war in the future.

🇧🇾🇺🇸 ISW also continues to assess that Belarus is Russia’s de facto cobelligerent in the war in Ukraine, thus, Belarusian incursions into NATO airspace are part of Russia’s broader Phase Zero effort

🔗 ISW

🇺🇸❌🇷🇴 The Romanian ministry of defense (MoD) has confirmed the story published by KyivPost.

The MoD stated that only 1000 American troops will remain in the country, which is a far bigger withdrawal than told by the Ukrainian newspaper.

Currently there are 2000 American troops in Romania, the majority deployed at the Mihail Kogălniceanu airbase in Constanța county close to the Black Sea. The rest are spread out between the airbase at Câmpia Turzii and the Deveselu Aegis anti-missile shield.

@Wallachian_Gazette

🇺🇸❌🇧🇷 The U.S. Senate today voted 52-48 to end a national emergency declared by the Trump Administration which allowed them to impose 50% tariffs on goods entering the United States from Brazil.

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