🇺🇸🌍 Leaders of the African countries and the US disagree on how a political settlement to the Ukraine crisis can be reached, with the main point of divergence being sanctions against Russia, the US media reported

🗣"The Africans want to see a diplomatic solution to this conflict. We generally do, too, but 'nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,'" the White House said in a press briefing, adding: "The disconnect comes when some of the countries have expressed discomfort with sanctions and criticisms of Russia that they think make it more difficult to get to a diplomatic solution."

▪️According to the media, the White House will seek ways to boost the US-African partnership during the United States-Africa summit in Washington "rather than paternalism" in its interaction with African countries.

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❗️Latest statements from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on the ongoing Ukraine crisis:

▪️The withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine before the year-end is out of the question;

▪️The “three steps towards peace” proposed by Zelensky are just steps to prolong the conflict;

▪️No progress towards peace is possible without taking into account the new realities in Ukraine;

▪️There is no heavy Russian weaponry at the Zaporozhye NPP, Moscow continues to maintain contact with the IAEA on the subject of the power plant’s safety;

▪️Efforts related to the recovery and improvement of life in the new regions is an absolute priority.

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Jim Rogers, one of the most famous investors in the world, shared his thoughts about the main events concerning the global economy and his forecasts with Sputnik:

▪️The next two to three years may be the worst for the global economy because of the excessive amount of accumulated debts, and the US will suffer a severe recession in the next year or two

▪️The problem of inflation around the world will persist because central banks have been flooding the markets with money

▪️Most of the existing critical currencies will disappear and depreciate

▪️The price cap on Russian oil will have no effect, because the market will find a way to bypass controls.

▪️The United States does not have enough energy resources to saturate European consumers, so Russia will maintain its presence in the region's market.

▪️The United States has allowed oil production in Venezuela to help Europe in conditions of energy shortage

▪️Investments in Russia can be profitable, and should be considered right now by investors who are not influenced by western sanctions.

▪️Tensions will grow between the US and Europe against the background of the EU's economic problems.

▪️The US export restrictions on semiconductor technologies in China will lead to the development of this industry in China itself and harm America's interests in the long run

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❗️The UK has unveiled a new package of sanctions against Russia over its special military operation in Ukraine, targeting senior commanders of the Russian Armed Forces, among others.

The sanctions target 12 senior Russian military commanders, as well as three Iranian businessmen and an Iranian UAV components manufacturing company, the UK government said in a statement.

Western countries have repeatedly accused Iran of supplying combat drones to Russia for its special military operation in Ukraine. No concrete evidence has been presented yet, with both Moscow and Tehran rejecting the allegations.

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❗️ Russia’s MoD report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️The Russian Army eliminated more than 40 Ukrainian military and foreign fighters in the Kupyansk direction;

▪️Russian troops destroyed seven Ukrainian command posts in the DPR, Kharkov, and Zaporozhye regions;

▪️Russian forces thwarted an attempt by the Ukrainian Army to counterattack in the South Donetsk direction, eliminating up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️The Russian Army repelled three counterattacks by Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk direction, eliminating more than 30 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️Russian forces thwarted counterattacks by three assault groups of the Ukrainian Army in the Krasny Liman direction, eliminating more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️Russian troops destroyed a Ukrainian MLRS battery in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defenses intercepted two UAVs, two HIMARS rockets, and one HARM missile.

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🇺🇸 An average of 19% of American adults cited some aspect of government as the top problem, followed by inflation (16%) and the economy (12%), according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday. The "government" is a broad category that includes a range of aspects, such as the president, Congress, party politics, or gridlock.

The poll found that Republicans are more likely than Democrats and independents to cite the government as the top problem.

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📹 Ukrainian troops shelled the center of Donetsk on Tuesday, hitting residential buildings, a Sputnik correspondent has reported from the scene.

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Prodigal Son: Why EU Can't Help Turning to Russia's Gas Next Winter

💬 "Germany and France fought several bloody wars over coal deposits in Alsace-Lorraine only to find themselves allies again. Things change in international politics and I wouldn’t rule out restoration of Germany’s energy trade with Russia, though not to the extent of dependency we saw before the [Russo-Ukraine conflict]," Dr. Gal Luft, co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and a senior adviser to the US Energy Security Council, told Sputnik.

Previously, Russia typically supplied about 40% of Europe's natural gas. Most of the commodity reached the Old Continent through gas pipelines going via Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic Sea. Deliveries last year amounted to around 155 billion cubic meters (bcm).

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21 Years Ago Today: US Rips Up ABM Treaty With Russia, Starting Slow Slide Toward Current Crisis

21 years ago, the US began to unravel the post-Cold War security environment by pulling out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, a 1972 agreement which limited the US and USSR’s ability to develop and deploy anti-missile defenses.

The fateful decision demonstrated to Moscow that Washington's rainbows and puppy dog promises of eternal friendship after the collapse of the USSR were a bluff, and prompted Russia to dust off development work on hypersonic weapons systems designed to preserve the global strategic balance.

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🇺🇸🌍 The US frames African issues as if it assumes “Africa is like one country,” Hermela Aregawi says

▪️She notes that if the US really was to “take the economic development needs of Africa seriously,” it could give the continent’s countries financial relief by reviewing its sanctions policy.

🗣“I mean, a third of the continent is under sanctions,” she adds.

▪️According to Aregawi, the US-Africa Leaders Summit “feels like an opportunity to talk high in the sky issues” and “probably not much will come out of it”

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🇷🇺🇮🇷 Moscow and Tehran are considering setting up joint ventures in Iran that would allow them to design and build airliners with 100 seats and fewer, Iranian Deputy Industry Minister Manouchehr Manteghi, Iranian media reported.

Manteghi said that talks were underway on the joint construction of Ka-226 utility helicopters in Iran and the construction of 100- to 150-seat civil aircraft by the Russian union of aircraft makers. Joint maintenance projects were also discussed.

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