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The American President, Donald Trump, announced on Monday that the United States has concluded a trade agreement with India, a country he said has committed to stop importing Russian oil and to buy more oil from the USA and even from Venezuela, according to AFP and Reuters agencies, quoted by Agerpres. The agreement provides for a reduction from 25% to 18% of the customs duties charged by the USA on imports from India, Trump wrote in a message posted on his network, Truth Social, after a phone call with the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. The latter has “agreed to…
The Kremlin’s propaganda has abruptly changed its discourse and began to convince Russians that Russia no longer needs to occupy new territories in Ukraine. A clear shift in tone in the official propaganda rhetoric is observed. The Kremlin-controlled channel, Soloviev LIVE, began to explain to the Russian public why it is not necessary to extend the occupation over other Ukrainian territories, writes Dialog.UA. The well-known propagandist blogger Alexander Arutiunov (Razvedos) had a vehement intervention, in which he complained that many Russians are massively demanding the occupation of new territories, without taking into account the real costs. “Our people do not…
About 40% of Ukrainians would be willing to give up the Donbas region if Ukraine receives firm security guarantees to prevent a new Russian invasion in the future, but a majority of 52% reject the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from this territory, according to a survey conducted by the International Institute of Sociology in Kiev, reported on Monday by the EFE agency, quoted by Agerpres. The complete occupation of the Donbas region, made up of the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk, is a key demand of Russia to conclude a peace agreement with Ukraine. The Russian army currently controls…
The authorities in Kazakhstan have deported the 25-year-old IT specialist, Aleksandr Kacikurkin, to Russia, where he was immediately arrested on charges of “high treason”. The information was made public by the human rights project “Pervîi Otdel” (First Department). The basis of the criminal case is money transfers to Ukraine. According to human rights defenders, Kacikurkin is a citizen of Ukraine and grew up in Crimea. After the annexation of the peninsula, the young man was “imposed Russian citizenship”, notes “Pervîi Otdel”. In recent years, the IT specialist lived in Almaty, where he moved for political reasons, and worked as a…
In new documents published by the US Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case, the American financier is described as the “administrator of the wealth” of Vladimir Putin. The information was signaled by the publication “Agentstvo”. It is about an FBI report from November 27, 2017, based on the statements of a confidential source. According to the document, Epstein would have “offered similar services” to the former dictator of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe. In total, in the new set of documents, Putin’s name is mentioned 1055 times, and the word “Russia” appears 5876 times. The materials also include correspondence in…
Direct negotiations between Kiev, Moscow, and Washington aimed at a solution that would lead to the cessation of the war in Ukraine will be resumed on Wednesday in the United Arab Emirates, reported Agerpres on Sunday, quoting a statement by Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski. “The dates of the next trilateral meetings have been set: February 4 and 5, in Abu Dhabi,” Zelenski clarified on X.”Ukraine is prepared for a substantive discussion and we want the result to bring us closer to a real and dignified end to the war,” he added. On Saturday, Volodimir Zelenski had stated that Kiev is…
The company SpaceX has blocked, at Ukraine’s request, the use of satellite communications Starlink by Russian troops for coordinating attack drones used in the destruction of Ukrainian civil infrastructure. The announcement was made by the company’s founder, Elon Musk, in response to a message from the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Mihailo Fedorov. “It seems that the measures we have taken to stop the unauthorized use of Starlink by Russia are working,” Musk wrote. Fedorov confirmed that the initial measures have already started to work and thanked SpaceX for their cooperation, mentioning that work is still ongoing on additional steps. The…
At least 15 people died on Sunday, February 1, after a Russian drone struck a bus carrying civilian miners in the city of Ternivka, in the Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk. The attack is part of a large-scale aerial offensive launched by Russia against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, reports Kyiv Independent. According to DTEK, the largest private energy company in Ukraine, the bus was carrying miners who had finished their work shift. As a result of the attack, 15 people were killed, and another seven were injured. “The bus was carrying mining workers – civilians who were not involved in the fight.…
Dmitri Medvedev, vice chairman of the Security Council of Russia, described American President Donald Trump as “an effective leader” who truly pursues peace and has the ability to challenge the Washington establishment, reports Reuters. In an interview granted to Reuters and TASS agencies, as well as to the war blogger WarGonzo, Medvedev stated that Trump’s “impetuous” style is in fact “effective” and contributes to achieving his goals. Referring to Trump’s statements in August, according to which he would have repositioned two nuclear submarines in “appropriate regions” in response to previous warnings from Medvedev about the risks of war, the Russian…
The Russian occupying authorities have begun gold mining in the Lugansk region, on territory under the control of the Russian Federation, according to a report by the National Resistance Center (NRC). According to the cited source, four “permits” were issued in the Antracit district for the exploration and exploitation of gold, as well as for the identification of copper and zinc deposits. All these authorizations were concentrated in the hands of a single company, “Severnaia Mining Company”, which gained monopolistic control over the area and the right to expand activities over an area exceeding 250 square kilometers. Sources within the…