ππΊππ· Hungary requested that Croatia allow the shipment of Russian crude via the Adriatic pipeline, - Bloomberg Hungarian Foreign Minister and Slovak Economy Minister jointly wrote to the Croatian government in Zagreb with the request.
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π¬π§ The UK government is considering raising defence spending to 3% of GDP earlier than planned, potentially by 2029, - BBC Starmer had previously promised to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027, with an ambition to reach 3% in the next parliament.
πΊπ¦βοΈ Stoltenberg: The big mistake was not to provide more support earlier to Ukraine. We should have started in 2014. The Ukrainians would control more of their territory today, and we might even have prevented the full-scale invasion if we had armed and trained them in 2014 and in 2022.
π΅βπ«π©πͺπΊπ¦ German AfD Leader Alice Weidel on Ukraine: One must not continue feeding such a regime, but must force a regime like the Ukrainian one to the negotiating table β as Trump has done. That should have been Germanyβs task as well.
Also, for two days in a row, Russia conducted reconnaissance of objects in Kyiv and the region, as well as regions in western Ukraine.
πβ οΈ Russia has completed preparations for a strike on Ukraine. The attack may take place tonight, before tomorrow's negotiations, - monitoring channels Three Tu-95MS have been redeployed closer to the border with Ukraine.
π "German drones, produced in German factories, with German and Ukrainian flags on board, will kill Rusnya [Russians]!" The Kremlin's chief propagandist Solovyovβ¦
π€― Occupied Avdiivka, Donetsk region. Grand opening of a new hardware store. "Russian World"β¦
According to Eurostat, Ukrainians are more than 98.4% of people who have received protection in the EU. Of these, 43.6% are adult women, 30.5% are minors and 25.9% are adult men.
βΌοΈ Car explosion in Odesa qualified as a terrorist act, β SBU The driver of the car was injured, he was hospitalized. Comprehensive measures are underway at the scene to establish all the circumstances of the incident and the persons involved in its commission.
Polls suggest OrbΓ‘n could lose the April 12 vote, with the opposition Tisza party led by PΓ©ter Magyar leading OrbΓ‘nβs Fidesz by about 10 points. Roughly β¬2.4bn in fresh funds could be disbursed to OrbΓ‘nβs government before the elections, regardless of recent concerns.
πͺπΊππΊ The EC is toning down its criticism of OrbΓ‘n and might even disburse fresh EU funds to his illiberal government ahead of elections, - FT EU officials did not want to be seen as interfering in elections or to give more ammunition to OrbΓ‘n in his anti-Brussels campaign.
βοΈπΊπ¦ SBU exposes 48-year-old Odesa woman who guided Russian missiles and drones at the city's energy infrastructure The woman searched for the coordinates of substations and high-voltage facilities, photographed them and sent the data to FSB curator.
π΅π± Warsaw announces withdrawal from Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines Deputy Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Committee on National Defense stated that Ukrainian experience proved the effectiveness of mines at the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion.
βοΈπ Russian UAV operator from elite unit Rubicon defected to Ukraine, project "I want to live". Myroslav Simonov said that after deployment near Kupyansk, seeing how easily orders to destroy prisoners were carried out, he went to the North-West Frontier and defected to Ukraine.
ππΊπ¦ Destroyed Kupyansk in archival footage of βPomstaβ brigade.
π«π· Macron: Two years ago, the world learned of the death of Alexei Navalny, whose memory I honor. At the time, I expressed my conviction that his death revealed the Kremlin's weakness and its fear of any opposition figure. It is now clear that it was premeditated. Truth always prevails in the end.
π₯π UAV operators of βPredatorβ brigade are striking Russians, vehicles, and shelters in the Kostiantynivka direction.
π₯ Another Russian T-72 was eliminated near Yampil.