🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — 🇹🇼 Ministry of National Defense of Republic of China on Twitter/X:

➡️ 16 PLA aircraft and 7 PLAN vessels operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today.

➡️ 10 of the aircraft entered Taiwan’s southwestern and eastern ADIZ.

➡️ ROC Armed Forces have monitored the situation and employed appropriate forces to respond.

🔗 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. 🇹🇼 (@MoNDefense)

🇧🇷🇷🇺⚠️🇺🇦 — A fertilizer company linked to a sanctioned Russian tycoon made a multimillion-dollar investment in Brazil, news that fueled suspicions that the South American country may be assisting Moscow in evading sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine

➡️ The Swiss group EuroChem, a company that accounts for 5% of global fertilizer production, invested $1 billion in the construction of a new industrial complex in the state of Minas Gerais (MG).

‼️ It is an integrated project that includes a phosphate mine, input factories, and a mixer, with a production capacity of 1 million tons of phosphate fertilizer per year. The investment will allow for a 15% increase in Brazilian fertilizer production starting in 2025, according to the media.

🔼 According to EuroChem's CEO in South America, Gustavo Horbach, the investment will reduce Brazil's dependence on fertilizer imports. It will also allow the company to work more with phosphates since currently, most of its global production consists of nitrogen and potassium-based fertilizers.

❗️ The magnitude and characteristics of the investment have raised suspicions that, favored by the accommodating attitude shown by the government of Lula da Silva towards Russian President Vladimir Putin, EuroChem's investment in Brazil is a way to circumvent European sanctions.

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