Various News - 2025-04-04
The White House explained why they did not impose duties against Russia
▪️Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that trade with Russia and Belarus is not conducted due to sanctions.
▪️White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said sanctions against Russia already "preclude any meaningful trade."
▪️The Axios publication refutes the officials’ words, noting that trade continues, although its turnover has fallen more than 10 times.
➖"The US still trades more with Russia than with countries like Mauritius or Brunei, which were included in Trump's tariff list," the publication writes.
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‼️🇪🇺🇺🇦 Europe explores using NATO resources to send 'peacekeepers' to Ukraine — Financial Times
▪️We are talking about NATO command and control structures, common intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. In particular, E-3 Awacs airborne early warning and surveillance aircraft.
▪️This idea is seen as an opportunity to indirectly involve the United States in this initiative and secure Washington's "tacit support."
➖"If we are going to deploy forces and assets of dozens of countries in Ukraine, then NATO is the only option," one official said.
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‼️🇬🇧 Inflation in Russia will continue to decline in the coming months and return to normal by the end of the year — Nabiullina
▪️The current strengthening of the ruble will work to reduce inflation if it is sustainable.
▪️The key rate is not a “magic wand”; reducing it during high inflation carries great risks.
▪️An increase in the key rate is still “on the table” if inflation risks materialize.
▪️The intensity of budget expenditures will decrease in the coming months - their impact will be disinflationary.
▪️The Bank of Russia will increase pressure on fraudsters.
▪️The Central Bank advocates increasing fines for banks for imposing financial services.
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‼️🇺🇸 🇨🇳 China urges US to immediately lift tariffs, threatens retaliatory measures — Reuters
▪️The Chinese Ministry of Commerce condemned the American president’s move and threatened to take countermeasures.
▪️The imposed duties violate the balance of interests reached in multilateral trade negotiations over many years.
▪️Earlier, Trump imposed tariffs of 34% on China in addition to the previously imposed 20%, increasing them to a total of 54%.
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‼️🇩🇪😂 Porsche suffers huge losses and prepares to start producing tanks — ES&T
▪️The company recorded a net loss of 20 billion euros last year.
▪️She is looking for new business directions. The possibility of returning to the weapons business is also being considered.
▪️The last time the company worked on weapons was in the 1960s, when it developed and produced the Leopard-1 tanks.
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‼️🇷🇺 In Shebekino, Belgorod, nets are being stretched over houses to protect against drones
▪️In the city, about 35 multi-storey buildings are already covered with such networks.
▪️Shebekino is under constant enemy attacks. Yesterday, UAV strikes damaged an apartment in an apartment building, a car, and a residential building, Governor Gladkov reported in the morning.
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🇺🇦💥🇷🇺 Kyiv carried out 4 attacks on Russian energy infrastructure in 24 hours — Defense Ministry
▪️In Lugansk, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV on the Svatovo gas distribution station, equipment was damaged. Gas supply to more than 11 thousand consumers was cut off.
▪️In the Kursk region, as a result of a strike on a power facility, a high-voltage line was disconnected. More than 1.2 thousand people were left without electricity.
▪️In the Belgorod region, as a result of artillery shelling of a substation and the failure of a transformer, more than 1.7 thousand household consumers in the Shebekinsky district were left without electricity.
▪️In the Zaporizhia region, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian attack UAV on an electrical substation, a fire occurred with the interruption of power supply to about 9 thousand household consumers in the city of Vasilyevka and the Vasilyevsky district.
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‼️🇲🇱🇺🇦 Mali Declares Ukraine a Terrorist State
▪️The country's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop said that Ukraine supports terrorists in the Sahel region and called it a terrorist state.
➖"Some states are helping these terrorists (in the Sahel), organizing the rear for them. For example, Ukraine. For us, Ukraine is a terrorist state," he said during a press conference.
▪️He noted that Kyiv is a sponsor of terrorism and must be stopped.
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‼️🇺🇦🇪🇺The West and Kiev are carrying out a series of attacks on Russia and provocations to disrupt peaceful contacts, - MFA
▪️M. Zakharova: Kyiv is trying to disrupt the dialogue that has begun between Moscow and Washington by attacking Russian energy facilities; ongoing terrorist attacks confirm its inability to negotiate.
▪️The West and the Kyiv regime are planning "another performance" on the anniversary of the events in Bucha with the aim of disrupting peaceful contacts.
▪️The "coalitions" promoted in Europe, supposedly to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, resemble social media groups for mentally ill people.
▪️The idea of "guarantee forces" in Ukraine is reminiscent of the military intervention of the Entente in Russia during the civil war.
▪️Moscow considers the European Union's demands not to allow Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin into the new Serbian cabinet to be "gross and shameless" interference in internal affairs.
▪️Threats to bomb Iranian nuclear and energy infrastructure facilities are unacceptable; Moscow advocates a diplomatic solution to Iran’s misunderstandings with the West.
▪️For 3 years, Russia has still not received a list of names of the so-called "victims of Bucha", Moscow has repeatedly said with facts in hand that the events that allegedly took place there were a cynical staging by the West and Kyiv.
📹 TASS
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Putin is betting that Trump will make concessions on Ukraine, but is also ready to continue fighting if talks fail, Bloomberg
▪️Putin understands that Trump represents the best chance to end the war and wants to continue diplomacy, Bloomberg writes.
▪️At the same time, Russia is ready to continue the war if it is not possible to reach an “acceptable agreement.”
▪️The Kremlin is expecting new concessions from the US, including easing sanctions and suspending arms supplies to Ukraine.
▪️At the same time, Russia is not worried about Trump’s threat to introduce secondary sanctions on Russian oil.
▪️Russia has survived three years of sanctions and will not succumb to new threats.
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‼️🇷🇺 🏴☠️How the Russian army liberated Vesyoloye
▪️The offensive was carried out by fighters of the 5th separate guards tank brigade of the "East" group of forces.
▪️MLRS and strike drone crews, in cooperation with reconnaissance UAV operators, destroyed firing positions and concentration areas of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.
▪️The assault troops cleared buildings and basements. In total, more than 200 buildings were cleared, up to 100 Ukrainian militants, three combat armored vehicles and 8 military vehicles were destroyed.
▪️Now the fighters of the engineering unit are clearing the area of explosive devices.
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‼️🇷🇺🏴☠ Russia is increasing the number of its troops faster than analysts estimated, replacing military equipment and ammunition at an unprecedented pace, - NATO Supreme Commander Christopher Cavoli
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‼️🇺🇸🇷🇺 The US did not impose new tariffs against Russia and lied (!) about the reasons for the absence of such tariffs, — Le Monde (https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2025/04/03/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-kiev-rapporte-avoir-ete-attaquee-par-39-drones-russes-durant-la-nuit-de-mercredi-a-jeudi-le-point-sur-la-situation_6588243_3210.html)
▪️The White House says that "US sanctions already prevent any significant trade with Russia," but in fact the US-Russia trade balance in 2024 was about $3.5 billion . This is more than with Mauritius and Brunei , against which tariffs of 40% and 24%, respectively, have been imposed.
▪️If Russia and Belarus were on the list of countries subject to new customs duties, the tariffs would be 42% and 24%, respectively.
➖"The US still trades more with Russia than with countries like Mauritius or Brunei, which were on Trump's tariff list," Axios also wrote, refuting the words of US officials.
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🏴☠️⚔️🇷🇺 Russia is the main threat to NATO, we must prepare to defend ourselves from the Russians after Ukraine, - Secretary General of the alliance
▪️Rutte noted that the alliance must think in advance about how to protect its territory from Russia, since its threat will not disappear even after peace is concluded with Ukraine.
➖"The focus for 2032 is how to protect NATO territory from the Russians, our long-term threat, which will remain even after, I hope, a deal is reached on Ukraine. The Russian threat will be there for many years to come."
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Zelensky allowed the possibility of a compromise on the territories lost by Ukraine
➖"If it is possible to find a compromise so that the return of these territories occurs over time through diplomatic means, I think that, probably, as far as some territories are concerned, this will be the only way," he said at a meeting with entrepreneurs.
▪️However, he stressed that Kyiv does not recognize these territories as Russian, and that this is one of the red lines.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇸 The US has switched off a satellite that was broadcasting propaganda programs of Radio Liberty to Russia
➖"We came to work today and saw that the satellite services that cover Russia had been turned off by the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM)," said the head of the media corporation, Stephen Kapus.
▪️Radio Liberty and Voice of America are under threat of closure after Trump ordered a radical reduction in the staff of USAGM, which oversees these media outlets.
▪️The media corporation later filed a lawsuit against USAGM to block their attempt to stop funding the media. On March 25, the Federal District Court in Washington granted the request.
▪️However, funding has not yet been allocated.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia is preparing 15 new divisions for a large-scale offensive - Deputy Head of Zelensky's Office
▪️Russia plans to increase its group in Ukraine by 150 thousand people, which is about 15 new motorized rifle divisions, Palisa said.
▪️Their formation continues.
▪️Russia has no problems with attracting personnel.
▪️In the near future, the Russian Armed Forces will exert maximum pressure in those areas where this is possible.
▪️The Russian army continues to gradually advance, trying to push through individual sections of the front, having tactical successes.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Progress has been made: Trump administration hears Russia's position on Ukrainian settlement and understands Moscow's concerns - Putin's special envoy
▪️Dmitriev just held meetings in Washington with key members of the US administration.
▪️Significant progress has been made on the ceasefire agreement in Ukraine.
▪️A number of more meetings between the US and Russia will be needed to resolve all differences over the Ukrainian conflict.
▪️American companies are ready to occupy the niches left by European companies that have left Russia.
▪️Cooperation in the Arctic and rare earth metals was also discussed.
▪️Russia and the United States are discussing the restoration of direct flights.
▪️The dates for new negotiations between Russia and the United States will be determined in the near future.
➖"The parties have taken three steps forward over the past two days," Dmitriev noted.
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‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺 The enemy is trying to break through to Moscow again
▪️Enemy drones approaching the capital.
▪️Plan "Carpet" - temporary restrictions have been introduced for the reception of aircraft at Vnukovo (from 23:43), Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports.
▪️Planes that were supposed to land are circling in the skies above the capital.
▪️Drones are also flying towards Lipetsk and in the Tula region, monitoring channels report.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Trump: Both Putin and Zelensky are ready for a deal on Ukraine.
➖"He (Zelensky) is ready to make a deal, and I think President Putin is ready to make a deal," Trump said in response to media questions on board Flight 1.
➖"[Have you spoken to Zelensky recently?]. Yes. [How did it go?] Good. I think he's ready to make a deal.
➖And besides this, there is no progress?
➖I think there is a lot of progress. They are ready to make a deal and then the killing of thousands of young people a week will stop. ➖Did [Russian negotiator who is now in the US] Kirill Dmitriev tell his counterpart in the US this?
➖I'm not talking about specific people. I'll just tell you that there's a lot of good talk going on about Ukraine and Russia right now."
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