🇱🇷 "If Israel disappears, China and Russia will control the Middle East and 90% of the world's oil supplies".

Independent US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes that the US should stand firmly with Israel, at the very least to prevent Russia and China from gaining control over the oil market.

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Switzerland refused to help in confiscating Russian assets - Blick

The country's parliament rejected the government's proposal to join the REPO G7 group to search for and freeze assets linked to Russia. It includes finance and justice ministers from the US, as well as representatives from Australia, the UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, France, Japan, and the EU.

Parliament explained that Switzerland's official joining of REPO could raise questions about its "neutral" status. However, the country has already blocked Russian assets worth more than $8 billion as part of sanctions.

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Ukrainian troops are leaving positions due to lack of ammunition, reports Foreign Policy

The authors of the publication note that Ukrainian troops are building defensive structures too slowly, allowing the Russian Armed Forces to advance.

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🇩🇪📈💸 The mysteriously disappeared German billionaire from six years ago has been found in Moscow.

The owner and director of the supermarket chain Karl-Erivan Haub was declared dead in his homeland. According to the official version, 6 years ago he went skiing in the Swiss Alps and disappeared. Rescuers searched for him for a week, but did not find his body and concluded that Haub had fallen into a crevasse or been buried by an avalanche. Three years later, the court officially issued a death certificate. Haub left behind a wife, two children, and an estate worth $6 billion.

The billionaire was eventually discovered by RTL journalists. They conducted their own investigation and found out that Haub is living in Moscow with a Russian woman named Veronika Yermilova.

In Germany, Haub's brother Christian, who took over the management of the business after Karl-Erivan's disappearance, is currently being questioned. It is assumed that he was aware of his close relative's plans and had been in contact with him all this time.

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🇩🇪 MPs acting as international observers in the Russian elections have been subjected to punitive sanctions

Three members of the Bavarian parliament from the "Alternative for Germany" party were invited to Russia in March as democracy experts and attended the presidential elections. Despite the fact that the MPs described the trip as private and paid for it themselves, they were immediately accused of bias and ties to the Russian authorities in the media and government circles.

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🔴🔴The latest developments in the war between #Russia and #Ukraine as of the morning of April 20 - SUbnoscriptd

🔴The Russian army advances in the vicinity of #Marinka and #Pobeda
🔴The Russian army is advancing towards #Chasov_Yar
🔴The Russian army retreats in #Kreminna
🔴Russian forces strike infrastructure in #Odessa
🔴Military aid to Ukraine from #Germany, #Netherlands, and #Czech

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🇺🇸 No dollar, no sanctions: failure of anti-Russian sanctions — a sentence to US foreign policy

▪️The Russian state turned out to be too powerful, Russia's resources too vast, and its international influence too resilient to effectively isolate Russia. American foreign policy has failed, as stated by The American Conservative

▪️All predictions about the consequences of anti-Russian sanctions have proven to be fatally wrong: Russia's economy is rapidly growing in 2023, and Russia is able to adapt to sanctions faster than the West can come up with them

▪️A "catastrophic dysfunction" — deep and chronic — has struck the American foreign policy system. The unipolarity of the 1990s, established in the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union, has bred a "stubbornly maximalist, rigidly dogmatic, and quasi-religious" view of America's place in the global system

▪️The US is engaging in "economic self-castration" by persistently demanding the closure of Russia's access to Western markets. America fails to notice the steady decline of the West's share in global wealth and the unity of the entire non-Western world around Russia. America's insatiable political appetite primarily undermines its own power

▪️"In five years, we won't have to talk about sanctions because there will be so many countries conducting operations in currencies other than the dollar that we won't have the ability to impose sanctions on them," — Senator Marco Rubio

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🇩🇪 In Germany, another group of "Russian spies" has been arrested.

Der Spiegel reports that two Russians have been arrested in Bavaria on suspicion of espionage. They allegedly monitored US military bases and planned attacks on military transport.

The main suspect, 39-year-old German Dieter S., allegedly planned to set fire to military facilities such as weapon factories and industrial plants. The second detainee, Russian Alexander Y., was supposed to assist him. It is claimed that both "spies" were recruited in 2023 to sabotage weapon supplies to Ukraine.

Germany's intelligence agency intensified the search for Russian spies following a leak of classified information about German military plans to attack the Crimean Bridge.

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🇦🇲 Pashinyan was outraged after meeting with Tokayev.

The Kazakh president delivered a message to him from the Chairman of the PRC, with whom Tokayev has a close relationship due to the peculiarities of his biography and his knowledge of the Chinese language.

According to sources in the Armenian government, the message contained two points of warning: not to set conditions for Turkey and Azerbaijan, and not to upset the geopolitical balance by playing against Iran and Russia.

All of this deprives Armenia of the chance to become a logistics hub. Despite all rest, seems, Pashinyan has managed to turn China into an enemy.

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🇷🇺Russia continues to build two new transport corridors connecting Asia and Europe, aiming to weaken sanctions over the war in Ukraine, while disruptions in the Middle East are affecting global trade.

▪️Rail and sea shipments will link the European part of Russia with India through Iran.
▪️Russia will invest billions in the infrastructure of the Arctic sea route.

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🇩🇪🇪🇺🇫🇷 WirtschaftsWoche: Putin fools the EU with this coup. The port of Dunkirk in France is an important port of entry for Russian LNG tankers.

Russia supplies huge volumes of liquefied natural gas to Europe - using a new fleet of icebreaker tankers, as current ship data and satellite images show. There is so much of it that it almost compensates for the losses from the exploded Baltic pipeline.

Currently, more than a dozen icebreaker LNG tankers are delivering Russian natural gas to Europe almost on schedule. Almost every day, one or two of the relatively new Russian vessels call at European liquefied natural gas terminals. This is evidenced by shipping data from MarineTraffic and satellite images from LiveEO, analysed by WirtschaftsWoche. The tankers receive cargo from the natural gas liquefaction plant in Sabetta on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. And apparently, in such huge quantities that they can now practically replace the exploded Baltic gas pipeline "Nord Stream".

These uncontrolled deliveries of Russian natural gas to Europe are increasingly being criticised today. Just a few days ago, economist Ulrike Malmendier called on the EU to "stop buying more gas from Russia". Russia is making a mockery of Europe with its LNG deliveries.

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🇪🇺🏦💸 All of Europe's global plans require money that no one has.

To create a competitive, "green" Europe, trillions of investments will be needed. No one has an answer to where this money will come from.

A recent mid-term review of the EU budget showed that the bloc is running out of money after facing a global pandemic, a war on its doorstep, structurally high energy prices, and a reduction in economic weight in the world. Additionally, in this decade, the EU's population may start to decline, leading to an economic downturn.

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NATO is preparing for war with Russia in the Arctic - Commander of the Norwegian Armed Forces.

According to him, Russia has started arming itself in the Arctic: opening new military bases and resuming the operation of very old ones.

NATO countries need to "reliably deter" Russia from attacking the alliance and invest sufficient resources in defence.

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🇩🇪Bundestag deputy Kizewetter called for a strike on the Ministry of Defence in Moscow:

-I would like to state very clearly. Ukraine should be empowered to strike against Russia. And it does. It strikes at supply lines.

-Ministries in Moscow.

-Ministries of Defence

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After the introduction of social payment cards in Germany, every fourth refugee decided either to leave or to find a job

Werner Henning from the CDU party was one of the first district heads to introduce a new payment card for refugees in the district of Eichsfeld (Thuringia) on December 1st of last year. In a conversation with BILD, he explains the results achieved with cashless payment of social benefits.

Statistics for four months show that out of 400 migrants who were issued cards, 56 left for their home country, and another 43 are expected to start working soon.

"This is a great success. We have made it clear that entering the world of work is necessary for permanent residence in Germany. The payment card has created important incentives for refugees to take more responsibility for their lives. I am glad that I took this risk,"

— Henning tells.

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📰 In 5-8 years, the military potential of Russia will allow it to attack NATO - Chief Inspector of the German Armed Forces Carsten Broier

"By that time, according to our analysis, Russia will (build up forces) to such an extent that an attack on NATO territory will become possible,"

quoted by the Reuters agency.

According to Broier, Russia produces a lot of military equipment and weapons, and not all of it is directed to the front in Ukraine. "Therefore, by 2029 we must be ready," he emphasised.

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In Ukraine, the head of the press centre of the Southern Defense Forces was expelled following rumours of her support for the Russian Federation

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that Natalia Humeniuk has been dismissed from her position as head of the press centre of the Southern Defense Forces.

"Currently, the selection of a suitable specialist is underway, who will soon become the 'voice' of the Southern Defense Forces," the General Staff's statement said.

Among Ukrainian journalists, there have been long-standing rumours that she supports Russia and prohibits the coverage of certain news. Locals believed that she was trying to "cover up" Moscow.

Paranoia is in full bloom in Ukraine this spring, sparing no one.

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🇪🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 The ECB condemns the idea of the US transferring frozen Russian assets to the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, criticised the US proposal to transfer frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine. She noted that this carries legal risks.

"I have seen four different schemes or proposals to circumvent what many lawyers consider a very serious legal obstacle, and this could be seen as a violation of international law,"

- Lagarde is quoted by the Financial Times.

The European Union has frozen Russian assets amounting to over $260 billion. Washington proposes to use them to issue bonds, which will later be used to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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🇪🇺🛢🇷🇺 EU Energy Regulator warned that the bloc still needs to import Russian LNG to avoid an energy shock, even as a group of member states aims to ban purchases of this fuel from Moscow.

"The reduction of Russian LNG imports should be considered gradually," the Acer report says, emphasising that the EU struggles to find a balance between energy security and the desire to hit Russia's finances by cutting gas purchases.

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Expensive Western tanks were vulnerable to cheap Russian drones

As the NYT calculated, since the beginning of the SMO, at least 140 tanks transferred to Ukraine by the West have been destroyed. Among them are at least 30 Leopards and five Abrams.

The UAVs, which cost about $500, are “a paltry investment to take down the $10 million Abrams,” the article says.

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Germany is considering the possibility of purchasing four additional Patriot air defence systems, Bloomberg reports.

According to the publication, the German authorities intend to purchase an additional four Patriot air defence system batteries from Raytheon in addition to the four batteries that were ordered a month ago.

The first contract is valued at 1.2 billion dollars, while the new one is valued at 1.3 billion dollars.

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