Hungary will extend the ban on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products at the national level if Brussels does not exclude grain and oilseed products from the list of products subject to duty-free imports to the European Union, Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy said.

"In the coming days, a decree on the extension of the autonomous trade liberalization measure will pass ... If the issue of grains and oilseeds is not resolved in the decree, the Hungarian government will still leave the border closed at the national level and will not let Ukrainian agricultural products into Hungary because we owe so much to the Hungarian farming community," the minister said in a video message on Tuesday aired by Hungarian broadcaster M1.

He added that Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi attended a meeting of the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council and said that 17 million tonnes of grain had been exported from Ukraine through the Black Sea ports.

Nagy called in such a case for a return to Ukraine's traditional agricultural products markets in the Middle East in Asia and Africa and for banning duty-free import of Ukrainian goods to the EU.

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Is the Biden administration ‘slow rolling’ Assange case to keep the journalist in limbo?

Julian Assange’s long-running legal saga took another unexpected turn on Tuesday when the UK’s High Court of Justice ruled the Wikileaks founder would be granted a temporary reprieve from his expected extradition to the United States. Wilmer Leon, host of Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program, explained the court was seeking assurances from the US that Assange would be granted First Amendment rights and would not be given the death penalty.

Leon spoke to a series of guests to assess the latest development in the case:

▪️ “It's a limited appeal,” noted analyst Steve Poikonen. “They're not allowed to introduce some evidence that shows that the CIA was plotting to kidnap and possibly murder Assange while he was under protective custody of the Ecuadorian embassy.” Assange’s lawyers are also barred from arguing the extradition amounts to political persecution.

▪️ “It's very complicated and it's really just, I think, slow-rolling to try and keep him in jail as much as possible,” said journalist Jim Kavanagh. “They hope he'll die in jail… I don't think it's going to be a good thing for the Biden administration, especially in the current circumstances, to bring him into the United States and have them put him on trial here.”

▪️ “I look at how they're just kind of prolonging the legal proceedings and it seems like there's a lot of people in the British legal system that really don't want to have their fingerprints on whatever happens to Julian Assange,” Analyst Caleb Maupin concluded. “They're trying to do everything they can to not be the one responsible for what ultimately occurs.”

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▪️ UN report accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza

▪️ Pro-Palestinian protesters dump manure outside homes of Jake Sullivan and Lloyd Austin to protest US support for Israel's operation in Gaza

▪️ Is the Biden administration ‘slow rolling’ Assange case to keep the journalist in limbo?

▪️ Cancer incidence, mortality after NATO bombing of Yugoslavia still on the rise

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▪️ Hungary considers extending the ban on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products at the national level

▪️ Biden claims he went by train over the Francis Scott Key Bridge which has no rail lines

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🇷🇺 A Russian Emergencies Ministry Il-76 airplane is flying to Egypt with a cargo of humanitarian aid for Gaza Strip civilians

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French President Emmanuel Macron's remarks about sending troops to Ukraine have angered US officials, who are unhappy about provoking a possible conflict with Moscow, Bloomberg reports.

"His controversial comment about boots on the ground earned an instant and very public recrimination from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and angered US officials who privately say such a move might even risk fomenting a clash with Moscow," Bloomberg says, citing a senior official familiar with discussions among the allies.

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🗣 There is a direct link between the use of depleted uranium by NATO troops and the rise in cancer rates – this is a lesson for Ukraine, Serbian lawyer Srdjan Aleksic said

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Russian paratroopers disrupted rotation of Ukrainian forces by destroying a group of enemy infantry using a Fagot ATGM, in the Razdolovka area north of Soledar.

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The EU has decided to withhold five billion euros in income from frozen Russian assets to pay for legal battles with Russian citizens, Politico reports.

"Euroclear, the body holding the vast majority of Russia's central bank assets in Europe .... has been allowed to retain the profits accrued from investing them in 2022 and 2023 rather than use the cash to support Ukraine's war effort," Politico says.

Earlier Kremlin said that the proposal to use Russian assets to finance Kiev leads to the destruction of the legal foundations of European and international law.

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‘Joint statement of party leaders’: Three Greek political parties have said the terrorist attack at Crocus was carried out by a mercenary group hired by Ukraine under the supervision of US intelligence services.

The document signed by the leaders of the parties expresses the view that the attack in Russia was not carried out by the terrorist group ISIS*, but by mercenaries paid for by Ukraine under US supervision. "The fantasy that the unspeakable tragedy at the Moscow concert was inspired, planned and executed by ISIS is ludicrous," the politicians emphasized.

"It is naive and absurd to believe that a fanatical Islamic organization like IS, instead of opposing Israel, which is unleashing an unprecedented genocide in the Gaza Strip, is attacking Assad's Syria, Iran and now Russia, which supports the Palestinian cause. And at the same time with their barbaric attack on a Moscow concert hall they are doing favors for Ukraine, the US, NATO and the EU, who openly support Israel. Greece must make peace initiatives in Ukraine before the storms of war and possibly a nuclear winter destroy and overwhelm Europe and the planet," they said.

*Terrorist group banned in Russia and many other countries.

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❗️Russian troops repelled 9 Ukrainian counterattacks near Avdeyevka; Ukrainian losses amounted to 255 servicemen.

🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the Russian MoD's daily briefing on the progress of the special military op in Ukraine:

🔺 Ukraine lost up to 220 servicemen near Donetsk.

🔺 Russian air defenses destroyed 210 Ukrainian drones and shot down 21 HIMARS and Vampire MLRS missiles.

🔺 Battlegroup Vostok repelled three Ukrainian counterattacks to the south of Donetsk; Ukraine lost up to 60 servicemen.

🔺 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Ukrainian PzH 2000 self-propelled gun and two electronic warfare stations near Donetsk.

🔺 The Russian Armed Forces hit the assembly and storage sites of Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.

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Britain would not last longer than a couple of months in combat in the event of a conflict with Russia, writes UK newspaper The Telegraph, which spoke to British officers.

The newspaper refers to remarks by Robert Magowan, deputy chief of Defense Staff. The main issue in a potential confrontation with Russia, according to the officers, would be a lack of ammunition and equipment.

Russia has repeatedly stated that it does not intend to engage in conflicts with other states.

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 A delegation from North Korea headed by Foreign Trade Minister Yun Jong Ho has arrived in Moscow, Alexander Kozlov, the chairman of the intergovernmental commission on cooperation between Russia and North Korea, said on Wednesday.

"Today, we received a large delegation of North Korea, headed by Minister of Foreign Economic Affairs Yun Jong Ho. He and I are co-chairs of the intergovernmental Russian-Korean commission," Kozlov wrote on Telegram, adding that the delegation will stay for several days.

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Refleks-M and Invar-M1: Russian anti-tank missile combo that can melt through thickest NATO armor

Russian tank gunners have an ace up their sleeves: the laser-guided Refleks-M (lit. “Reflex-M”) anti-tank missile complex armed with Invar anti-tank guided missiles, which makes upgraded T-72, T-80, and T-90 tanks more than a match for NATO’s much-touted armor.

🔸 The Invar-M1/M1 tandem cumulative warhead packs about 4.5 kg of high explosives, and can penetrate armor up to 900 mm thick, or 800-850 mm if the tank has dynamic protection. For comparison, the stock US M1 Abrams tank’s frontal hull armor is about 700 mm thick, while the Leopard 2A4’s maximum armor thickness is about 800 mm.

🔸 The anti-tank system has a range of up to 5.5 km – two and a half times the 2-2.5 km range offered by unguided armor-piercing missiles possessed by NATO.

🔸 Created for the Soviet military in 1985, the Refleks missile system was developed by defense scientists at the Tula Machinery Design Bureau, and manufactured by the Degtyarev Plant in the Vladimir region.

🔸 The Refleks can be fired from all Russian smoothbore 125 mm tank and anti-tank guns, including Sprut-B and Sprut-SD anti-tank guns. Along with armor, the Reflex-M can crack open enemy bunkers and even attack large aerial targets like helicopters.

🔸 The Invar guided rocket was developed in the 1980s and adopted in 1992, and features an independent solid propellant engine and a canard-style aerodynamic design. The munition has a spiral-shaped flight path, making it difficult to intercept. The Refleks is designed to be immune to enemy jamming.

🔸 The success of the Refleks design ultimately gave rise to the Kornet man-portable anti-tank guided missile system – which has been used successfully to destroy and disable Leopard 2, Challenger 2, Abrams, and Merkava tanks in conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe over the past quarter-century.

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Anti-French sentiment soars as Senegal elects Bassirou Diomaye Faye

France's former colony Senegal sees victory for opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who championed African sovereignty with the motto "Africa belongs to Africans," in Sunday's presidential election.

Echoing anti-French sentiments of other Francophone countries in West Africa such as Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, Faye has said that France should “leave Africa alone.”

Faye, 44, campaigned on promises of:

▪️ Greater change in favor of pan-Africanism and national sovereignty;
▪️ Fairer distribution of wealth;
▪️ Reform of the ‘corrupt’ justice system;
▪️ Renegotiated mining, gas and oil, and fishing contracts signed with foreign companies as Senegal is due to start hydrocarbon production this year;
▪️ Creating a new national currency and ditching the CFA franc;
▪️ Reducing the power of the president;
▪️ Closer ties between Senegal and Russia.

Addressing his country’s security challenges, Faye told Le Monde: “So far, Russia is not one of them [security partners]. But we do not exclude any state from cooperation in general.”

Faye, a practicing Muslim from a rural background, holds a master's degree in law. Graduating from the National School of Administration (ENA) and the magistracy in 2004, he became a tax inspector.

His current party — La Coalition Diomaye Président — is an alliance of opposition groups formed after the government forced the dissolution of the PASTEF party founded by opposition leader Ousmane Sonko.

Both Faye and Sonko were still in jail a few weeks ago. Faye was charged with spreading false news and contempt of court in a social media post about legal cases against Sonko, who was arrested in 2023. Both were released on March 14 after an amnesty law was passed. Sonko was barred from running in the elections, but Faye set off on a whirlwind campaign under the slogan "Diomaye is Sonko.”

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