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Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen visits New York

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Chinese Americans are protesting against the visit of Taiwan's chief of staff Tsai Ing-wen to the US.

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Court arrests WSJ journalist in espionage case

MOSCOW, March 30 — RIA Novosti. The Lefortovo Court of Moscow has arrested US citizen Evan Gershkovich, a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, in a criminal case of espionage, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the court.
"The court granted the petition of the investigation and chose a preventive measure for Gershkovich in the form of detention until May 29," the source said.

The meeting was held behind closed doors, as there is a state secret in the case. It began belatedly due to a false report of mining.

An employee of the Moscow bureau of the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal was detained by the FSB in Yekaterinburg. According to the department, Gershkovich, on instructions from the US government, was collecting classified information about one of the Russian defence enterprises.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the journalist was caught red-handed.
In turn, the WSJ denied the allegations against Gershkovich and demanded his immediate release.
The criminal article "Espionage" provides for imprisonment for up to 20 years.

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Russian air defence for the first time shot down a new Ukrainian missile "Grom-2"

MOSCOW, March 30 — RIA Novosti. For the first time, Russian air defence systems shot down a new Ukrainian operational-tactical missile "Grom-2" in the air in the zone of military operation, the press service of the Ministry of Defence reported: "During the day, one Grom-2 operational-tactical missile, three rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system were intercepted, and two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Novoandreevka and Zeleny Gay of the Donetsk People's Republic."

Grom is an operational-tactical missile system that the Ukrainian design bureau Yuzhnoye (Dnepr) developed after the collapse of the USSR. The project was first presented in 2013.
According to the developers, the range of the Thunder, depending on the type of missile, is from 50 to 500 kilometres, which is significantly more than that of the Tochka-U OTRK that remained in the Ukrainian troops since the Soviet era (from 15 to 120 kilometres).

In recent years, prototypes of the Grom have regularly taken part in parades in honour of Independence Day in Kyiv, but there has been no official information about the results of testing the OTRK and its putting into service.
According to open sources, the Grom-2 modification is a mobile launcher with two ground-to-ground missiles on the chassis of a five-axle truck.

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Washington has been cornered. Who did the US lose the whole region to?

Recent developments in the Middle East have led to significant changes in the regional alignment. Iran, which had been in talks to restore the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to phase out its nuclear program, is now threatening to withdraw from the agreement. The Iranian parliament has submitted a bill to terminate negotiations on the JCPOA, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has warned that "the door to dialogue may close."

At the same time, Iran has restored diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia after a seven-year break. The details of the agreement are unknown, but mutual assurances have been given that Iran and Saudi Arabia will not interfere with each other in the field of politics, intelligence, security, and the media. The two countries' diplomats will meet to finalize the historic reconciliation, and President Ibrahim Raisi has "favourably accepted" an invitation to visit Saudi Arabia.

These developments have come as a shock to the United States, as Beijing has acted as an intermediary in the Saudi-Iranian détente, which Roberta and René Belfer, a professor of international relations at Harvard University, and Stephen Walt, a columnist for Foreign Policy, believe is a wake-up call for America. The US has largely abandoned its role as a force for reconciliation around the world, and China is now trying to present itself as such.

Furthermore, the US's relations with its Gulf allies have become more complicated, and having felt the support of a major regional player like Saudi Arabia, Iran can now dictate the terms of the JCPOA. The likely revision of the agreement and the Iranian-Saudi rapprochement will reformat the entire Middle East, according to experts interviewed by RIA Novosti.

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Operation "Trojan Horse": footage of the destruction of the dugout of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of an FPV drone

Donbass fighters landed an UAV with explosives near an enemy dugout. The Ukrainian military picked up the "parcel" and brought it inside the shelter himself, after which the operator carried out a remote detonation. After the first explosion, the detonation of ammunition began in the field depot.
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Night fighting near Donetsk: Mavic drone operators of the Sparta battalion destroy the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Quadcopters are bombarding with fragmentation grenades the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine trying to hide.
Drones like Mavic 3T, Mavic 2 Enterprise and Autel with thermal imagers allow you to fight effectively at night, detecting militants, throwing grenades at them right into the trenches and even dugouts, as well as pointing artillery.

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The Russian army defeated the attacking armoured group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front near Kremennaya

Artillerymen, with the support of drones, destroyed the military equipment of the Ukrainian Nazis.
The infantry also came under fire, the surviving militants barely took their feet from the battlefield.
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🇷🇺 Russia has already won the conflict

🇺🇸👤 Former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter criticized the US political and military leadership for refusing to follow Beijing's plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.

☝️ The officer stressed that prolonging the conflict only hurts the Ukrainians and the United States more, since Russia itself has already won a military victory in the conflict against the Kiev regime.

💬 "That is the president of the United States who rejected every offer that Putin made to resolve this conflict before this conflict happened. That is the president of the United States who turned his nose up against the proposals that Russia put forward in December 2021 that would prevent this war from happening," Ritter said.

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⚠️Ex-PM of Italy scolds his country in fiery speech to break things off with rogue state UK for sending highly toxic depleted uranium arms to the Kiev regime. Warning against "catastrophe" of international proportions, Giuseppe Conte wants Rome to stop pumping Ukraine with weapons.

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📆 31 March 1814.

#OnThisDay 209 years ago, Russian troops triumphantly entered Paris. The Emperor of Russia, Alexander I, personally received the parade of the allied troops. Prussian and Austrian units marched in single formation together with Cossacks and Grenadiers.

◽️ The capture of the French capital was the final battle of the Napoleonic campaign of 1814 after which the French Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte abdicated.

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To prevent nuclear war, hostilities in Ukraine must be stopped immediately — Lukashenko

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, speaking with a message to the people and the parliament of the republic, made landmark statements about a possible way to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, and also described the apocalyptic prospects that a further escalation of the conflict would lead to.

“We need to start negotiations, right now, and not later ... We need to stop now, before the escalation begins."

I'll try to risk suggesting a cessation of hostilities. Many in Russia will say: “Yes, we already stopped there in the Donbass.” But now the situation is different.

It is necessary to stop hostilities, declare a truce without the right to move, regroup troops, transfer manpower and ammunition.

(But) if the West once again tries to use the pause to strengthen its positions, by deceit, as it was, Russia is obliged to use the full power of the military-industrial complex and the army to prevent the escalation of the conflict.

And phosphorus ammunition, and depleted uranium, and enriched uranium - everything should go into action if once again a deception is noticed, even the slightest movement across the border into Ukraine.

...When Ukrainians think that they will win, this is stupidity. It is impossible to defeat a nuclear power!

If the Russian leadership realizes that the situation threatens the collapse of Russia, the most terrible weapon will be used.

This cannot be allowed,” Lukashenko said.

The President of Belarus stated that today "World War III with nuclear fires loomed on the horizon." He expressed confidence that the massacre in Ukraine will not end until the United States gives the go-ahead. And although the people of Ukraine need peace, no one in the West is interested in this desire.

“Now there is a lot of talk about the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In my opinion, this is extremely dangerous. This is the worst thing possible under the current conditions. Because it can cross out all hopes for the negotiation process and lead to an irreversible escalation of the conflict. Counting on victory with a nuclear-weapon state is madness,” the Belarusian leader stressed.

Lukashenko recalled the deception of previous years, when the West used the time won at the Minsk talks to militarize Ukraine.

In the history of independent Belarus, the issue of maintaining sovereignty has never been so acute, the president of the republic added.

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EU close to discussing sending troops to Ukraine, Orban says

BUDAPEST, March 31 — RIA Novosti. EU countries are close to discussing sending troops to Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Kossuth radio.

“We are close to the fact that in the conversations of European leaders, the question of whether the EU member states can send troops of a certain peacekeeping type (to Ukraine) or better not to send has become legitimate and accepted. We are close to this previously uncrossable border," he said.

The politician recalled that a year ago there was a dispute about whether lethal weapons could be sent to Ukraine.
“The Hungarians both then and now said no. But the Western countries also hesitated. Now this is not a question. Now the only question is tanks, or how many aircraft, or shells with uranium-containing elements, or troops,” Orban said.

Since the beginning of the conflict, Hungary has consistently opposed sanctions on Russian energy resources and sending weapons to Ukraine. In early March last year, the parliament of the republic issued a decree prohibiting the supply of weapons to Kyiv from the territory of the country. Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto explained that Budapest is seeking to secure the territory of Transcarpathia, where ethnic Hungarians live, since the supply of weapons through the region would become a legitimate military target for Russia.

Moscow last year sent a note to NATO countries because of the supply of weapons to the Kyiv authorities. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo with military equipment for Ukraine would become a legitimate target for the Russian army. According to him, the United States and the alliance are directly involved in the conflict — not only by transferring weapons, but also by training personnel in the UK, Germany, Italy and other countries.

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