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🇷🇺🛢️📉 Virtually all major oil refineries in central #Russia have been forced to halt or scale back fuel output following Ukrainian drone attacks in recent days, according to official data and sources.
🇺🇦 #Ukraine will send reinforcements to its northern regions and step up diplomatic pressure on Belarus to counter what Kyiv believes are Russian plans to launch a new offensive north of the capital, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
💬 US Congressman Don Bacon, a senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, has warned in a wide-ranging interview that uncertainty from Washington risks emboldening adversaries, including #Russia, Iran, and China, amid growing strains within the NATO alliance.
https://www.rferl.org/a/don-bacon-nato-russia-iran-china-us-alliances/33760960.html
Republican Congressman Don Bacon warned that uncertainty over US commitments to NATO risks emboldening Russia, Iran, and China, arguing Washington must maintain strong alliances and military deterrence amid growing global instability.
🇷🇺 #Russia’s rapidly expanding war spending is driving a sharp rise in secret federal budget expenditures, with nearly one-third of all state spending now hidden from public view, according to estimates by the Gaidar Institute.
Russia’s rapidly expanding war spending is driving a sharp rise in secret federal budget expenditures, with nearly one-third of all state spending now hidden from public view, according to estimates by the Gaidar Institute.
🇭🇺🇪🇺 The new Hungarian government has signalled its readiness to allow the European Union to sanction Patriarch Kirill, the head of #Russia's Orthodox Church, and other individuals whom former PM Orbán had protected, Euronews can confirm.
🇪🇺🇺🇦 The European Commission signed on Thursday a memorandum of understanding with #Ukraine on a macro-financial assistance programme that paves the way for a 3.2 billion euro disbursement in mid-June, once it is ratified by the Ukrainian parliament.
💬 The Kremlin said on Wednesday that a general understanding with #China on their joint Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline had been reached but key details and a timetable for the vast project still needed to be agreed.
