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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNig: 8:49am On Apr 01, 2023
⚡️ 🇺🇸 White House won’t pay for Twitter verification (verified badge), according to Axios


Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNig: 1:02pm On Apr 01, 2023
⚡️ 🇷🇺 Russia has taken control of at least $12.4 trillion worth of minerals in 🇺🇦 Ukraine.

🇺🇦 Ukrainian media report that Kiev has now lost 63% of coal deposits, 11% of oil deposits, 20% of natural gas deposits, 42% of metal deposits, and 33% of deposits of rare earth elements "and other critical minerals, including lithium.”

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNig: 1:09pm On Apr 01, 2023
⚡️ International Olympics Committee (IOC) official admits 🇺🇦 Kiev regime decision to BAN Ukrainian athletes from competing with 🇷🇺 Russians will only HARM sports community.

Official adds that move contradicts position of many Ukrainian athletes and members of Ukrainian Olympic community.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNig: 1:10pm On Apr 01, 2023
⚡️ The 🇷🇺 Russian national football team has preliminary agreements to hold friendly matches with top teams from Africa this year - RFU Secretary General Maxim Mitrofanov

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNig: 1:28pm On Apr 01, 2023
⚡️ 🇺🇦 Ukraine is unlikely to expel all 🇷🇺 Russian forces from its territory this year, the top U.S. officer said Friday, giving a grim reality check to the expressed goal and hopeful ambitions of policymakers, diplomats, and defense leaders from 🇺🇸 Washington to Kyiv.

“I don't think it's likely to be done in the near term for this year,” Gen. Mark Milley said Friday in an interview with Defense One.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNig: 1:44pm On Apr 01, 2023
⚡️ 🇷🇺 First pumping station launched today for connecting water system between Donbass and other Russian regions

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Badassniggga(m): 2:00pm On Apr 01, 2023
WritterNig:
⚡️ 🇷🇺 First pumping station launched today for connecting water system between Donbass and other Russian regions
nawao. So Russia still doing these and building infrastructure despite the war.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Kingsnairaland(m): 3:11pm On Apr 01, 2023
Badassniggga:
nawao. So Russia still doing these and building infrastructure despite the war.
God bless mother Russia and God bless putin.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriiterNig: 4:34pm On Apr 01, 2023
⚡️ 🇷🇺 Russia FM Minister Lavrov: "Some other issues on the agenda are.... helping 🇳🇮 Nicaragua modernize its infrastructure... and build up its peaceful nuclear potential. We regularly allocate scholarships for our Nicaraguan friends to study at 🇷🇺 Russian universities, including in the specialties of nuclear power generation and non-energy uses of peaceful atom."

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 7:24pm On Apr 01, 2023
🛰 📸 Satellite images show a high level of activity at 🇰🇵 North Korea's main nuclear site, a 🇺🇸 US think tank says.

"These developments seem to reflect Kim Jong Un’s recent directive to increase the country’s fissile material production to expand its nuclear weapons arsenal"

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 8:19pm On Apr 01, 2023
⚡️ 🇮🇹 Italians who use English and other foreign words in official communications could face fines under a newly introduced bill.

🇮🇹 Italians who use English and other foreign words in official communications could face fines of up to €100,000 ($108,705) under new legislation introduced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 8:37pm On Apr 01, 2023
⚡️ 🇷🇺 Russian gas is flowing to Spain "like a river", while neither the Spanish government nor Brussels know how to stop it, writes El Confidencial.

The country increased its purchases of this fuel by 84% since the beginning of the conflict.

In the first two months of this year, the volume of purchased 🇷🇺 Russian gas increased by 172% compared to the same period last year.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 8:39pm On Apr 01, 2023
⚡️ Anti-government protests resume in 🇮🇱 Israel

Footage from the east of Tel Aviv, where the largest rally took place outside the government building.

Despite PM Netanyahu's decision to delay judicial reform until the summer, protesters again rallied, saying they no longer trust the current government.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 9:06pm On Apr 01, 2023
⚡️ 🇷🇺 Russian forces have eliminated Ukrainian radical militant, Daniil Lyashuk in Bakhmut. He was sentenced to 10 year in prison in 2017 for multiple crimes involving torture, rapes, amputations and murders, including against children.

🇺🇦 President elensky released him last year after serving less than 5 years

He once said “Without torture, life would not be life. Nothing raises the tone when you have someone's life in your hands"

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 9:18pm On Apr 01, 2023
⚡️ Weekly Recap:

1) 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia enters trade alliance with China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and four Central Asian nations to step further away from reliance on the US dollar.

2) 🇨🇳 China and France complete first LNG gas trade using Chinese Yuan, ending reliance on the US dollar for energy trades.

3) 🇨🇳 China and Brazil to settle trades in their own currencies, ditching the US dollar.

4) 🇧🇷 Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) are developing a new currency, State Duma Deputy Chairman says.

5) 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia partners with China to build a Chinese oil refinery for 83.7 billion yuan ($12.2 billion).

6) 🇰🇪 Kenya signs deal with Saudi Arabia and UAE to buy oil with Kenyan shillings instead of US dollars.

7) 🇰🇪 President of Kenya tells citizens to get rid of US dollars.

8] Association of Southeast Asian Nations considers dropping the US dollar, euro, yen, and British pound for local currency financial settlements.

9) 🇸🇻 El Salvador President officially signs bill eliminating all taxes on income, property, and capital gains for technology innovations.

10) 🇺🇸 US Senator Elizabeth Warren launches "anti-crypto" re-election campaign.

11) 🇮🇳 India to settle trade in Indian rupees with certain countries instead of US dollars, Commerce Secretary says.

12) 🇨🇳 Chinese yuan surpasses the euro to become Brazil's second-largest currency in foreign reserves.

13) 🇺🇸 US government to sell 41,500 #Bitcoin ($1.18 billion) connected to Silk Road, in four batches this year.

14) 🇭🇰 Hong Kong regulators to assist #crypto firms with banking in effort to become a digital asset hub.

15) Binance and CEO sued by US CFTC over alleged regulatory violations

16) 🇺🇸 US Social Security funds are projected to run out by 2033, Reuters reports.

17) 🇫🇷 5 major banks raided by French authorities in €100 billion fraud investigation

18) 🇺🇸 Former President Trump says President Biden is directly responsible for the bank failures and creating an economic catastrophe that will only get worse.

19) MicroStrategy purchases an additional 6,455 #Bitcoin ($150 million).

20) 🇺🇸 President Biden says the banking crisis is "not over yet."

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 6:51am On Apr 02, 2023
⚡️ 🇩🇪 German Defense Minister: "Should the worst case [scenario] come to life and an 🇺🇸 American president, who has distanced himself from Europe and NATO, move into the White House, we will have challenges that are currently unimaginable."

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 6:57am On Apr 02, 2023
⚡️ Two dead after hot-air balloon flying over the famed Teotihuacan archeological site near Mexico City caught fire.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 7:39am On Apr 02, 2023
⚡️ 🇮🇳 India announces Trade Settlement in rupees with 🇲🇾 Malaysia, moves beyond dollar, local media reports

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 7:45am On Apr 02, 2023
🚨 1 dead, 3 wounded in a shooting at Trader Joe’s grocery store in 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California.

Reports say an unknown gunman opened fire on the three victims around 3:45 p.m. in the Trader Joe's parking lot in LA. The suspect is said to have run from the scene.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 12:33pm On Apr 02, 2023
🇺🇸 📰 The New York Times loses its verification badge on Twitter

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 12:37pm On Apr 02, 2023
⚡️ 🇺🇸 American fighter pilots complained about 🇷🇺 Russian air defense systems.

🇺🇸 US pilots patrolling the airspace near 🇷🇺 Russia's borders have said that the equipment installed on their F-35s is not always able to recognize nearby objects.

"We saw an SA-20 (designation for the S-300 in NATO countries), we knew it was an SA-20, but my fighter couldn't identify it," said US Air Force pilot Craig Andrle.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 3:03pm On Apr 02, 2023
⚡️🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia plans to invite 🇸🇾 Syria's Assad to Arab leaders summit that Riyadh is hosting in May - Reuters

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 3:04pm On Apr 02, 2023
⚡️ The 🇬🇧 UK Ministry of Defense reports that the second group of 🇺🇦 Ukrainian servicemen has completed training on AS90 Braveheart self-propelled artillery guns.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 5:14pm On Apr 02, 2023
⚡️ 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇦🇪 UAE, 🇮🇶 Iraq, 🇰🇼 Kuwait, 🇴🇲 Oman, and 🇩🇿 Algeria to cut oil production output until the end of 2023.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriterrNig: 5:15pm On Apr 02, 2023
⚡️ Blast at a cafe in 🇷🇺 St Petersburg, Russia has left 1 dead and at least six others injured, according to Russian emergency services.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by BidenDTrounced: 5:37pm On Apr 02, 2023
WriterrNig:
⚡️ 🇷🇺 Russian forces have eliminated Ukrainian radical militant, Daniil Lyashuk in Bakhmut. He was sentenced to 10 year in prison in 2017 for multiple crimes involving torture, rapes, amputations and murders, including against children.

🇺🇦 President elensky released him last year after serving less than 5 years

He once said “Without torture, life would not be life. Nothing raises the tone when you have someone's life in your hands"

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNig: 5:57pm On Apr 02, 2023
⚡️ 🇷🇺 Putin will hold a large meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation next week — Peskov

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