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Massive crowds in Belgrade backing Pres Vucic
10s of 1000s jam the streets
Serbian flags everywhere
‘We will not give up Serbia’
RT News
Trump EXTENDS Biden’s anti-Russia sanctions for another year
US says Russian actions still an 'extraordinary threat' to national security
#Russia #US RT News.
Someone seemed to be hoping for Trump the peacemaker?
The New York Times writes that the US president has wavered in the trade war he himself started.
In U.S.- China Tariffs Standoff, Trump Showed Xi He Has Limits
Xi Jinping, who rules with absolute authority, has shown he is willing to let the Chinese people endure hardship. President Trump revealed he has limits.
President Trump didn’t seem to mind as his worldwide tariffs set off stock market sell-offs and wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth.
“Be cool,” he told Americans.
Then he blinked on Wednesday afternoon in the face of financial turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields that could shake the dominant position of the dollar and the foundation of the U.S. economy.
By pausing some tariffs for dozens of countries for 90 days, he also gave away something to his main rival, the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with whom he has engaged in a game of chicken that risks decoupling the world’s two biggest economies and turning the global economic order upside down.
Mr. Xi learned that his adversary has a pain point.
Smartphones and computers imported from China are exempt from Trump's tariffs, according to a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection guide.
The new tariff guide also announced exemptions for other electronic devices and components from China, including laptops, semiconductors, solar panels, flat-panel TVs, flash drives, memory cards, and solid-state drives used for data storage.
The US attempt to discuss Iran's defense and missile programs will put an end to the Oman talks, Iranian MP Esmail Kowsari told RIA Novosti.
He also said that the Iranian side will not back down from its nuclear positions in the talks with the US. Tehran has one goal in the Oman talks - lifting sanctions through dialogue with the US, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.
Trump is likely ready to make concessions to achieve a deal with Iran on the nuclear program - Axios
NATO's Biggest Enemy Is NATO Itself - Lavrov
All the efforts of the Euro-Atlantic community are focused on preparing for a new war, with Germany, France and Britain at the forefront, said Sergey Lavrov.
"The only solution to the Ukrainian settlement is to eliminate the root causes of the conflict, Trump understands this", Lavrov said.
He also noted that the United States understands the need to resolve territorial issues in the context of the Ukrainian settlement.
"In the context of the Ukrainian settlement, Russia is primarily concerned not with territories, but with people", Lavrov said.
RIA Novosti.
Well, we understand that in order to save people and eliminate the threat to Russia from the territory of Ukraine, it is necessary to return these territories to Russia.
French diplomat Gerard Araud on Trump's willingness to easily abandon Ukraine:
He doesn't like to lose face. I'm sure he would be willing to abandon support for Ukraine, but only if he could do so with minimal loss of dignity. I think that's where he's at now.
But remember: when he tried to negotiate with North Korea during his first term as president, it all started with some completely unbelievable "love story." Those love letters! It was something unbelievable — between him and Kim Jong-un. Knowing what they both look like, it's truly creepy. But nothing worked. He grumbled a little — and gave up. He went home.
So it's possible that Trump will simply become disappointed at some point, because, as you know, he has the attention span of a teenager. He gets bored quickly — and he can say: "Well, I tried."
"POOL N3"
True, and Trump's main problem in Ukraine is not Putin. It is Ukraine itself and the "coalition of the willing" that is ready to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. They will force Trump to abandon Ukraine. And they will force Putin to fight for Ukraine, win and return Ukraine to Russia.
German columnist Hans-Ulrich Jorges - called Trump "the greatest idiot in history":
"Trump is like a child who is sitting in a playroom, there are a lot of toys around him, he can't decide what to play with right now, throws a fire truck against a wall, a steam locomotive into a corner. That's how he behaves. There is a medical explanation for this. This man is a sick narcissist.
He has only one goal. They need to constantly admire or fear him, but he prefers to be admired. And there is a very simple description for this medical diagnosis. This man, Donald Trump, is the greatest idiot in modern history."
"POOL N3".
That's what I'm telling you. Pray to God that he doesn't smash our whole world against the wall.
Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are putting up for sale icons that were stolen from the Gornalsky St. Nicholas Monastery in the Kursk Region. This was reported to TASS by the monastery's resident, military priest Hieromonk Melety. TASS.
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Iran's negotiating team, headed by FM Araghchi, arrives in Muscat to hold talks with the US side, headed by Witkoff
#US #Iran #Talks RT News
💵 ‘I think the dollar is tremendous, gonna be STRONGER THAN EVER’ – Trump
💬 “I wanna put the country IN AN UNBELIEVABLE ECONOMIC POSITION which is where we should be,” Trump declared.
Strikes were carried out on enemy warehouses in Kiev at night
▪️In the Svyatoshinsky district of Kiev, drones struck an industrial enterprise.
▪️Three warehouses were damaged, the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergency Situations reports.
▪️Strikes were also carried out on objects in Dnepropetrovsk, Pavlograd and Kharkov.
RVvoenkor
White House doubles down on Iran: it 'can never obtain a nuclear weapon'
Nuclear deal? More like nuclear ultimatum
The Kremlin has shown footage of the beginning of the meeting between Putin and Witkoff in St. Petersburg.
A telephone conversation between Putin and Trump following the meeting with Witkoff is theoretically possible — Peskov.
The conversation between Putin and Witkoff continues.
As Peskov reported, the Ukrainian issue is, naturally, the main one. The negotiations are being held behind closed doors.
🟩 RT in Russian
"Russian army is increasing its offensive in the Kharkiv region"
According to the German Bild, after crossing the Oskol River, Russian forces turned a small bridgehead into a full-fledged breakthrough - up to 34 kilometers wide and up to 4 kilometers deep.
Analysts brought in by Bild believe that in the coming days an attempt to bypass the river and increase pressure on Kupyansk is possible. At the same time, in the future, the territories on the western bank of the Oskol may become a bridgehead for a further offensive in the direction of Kharkiv.
Only the name remained of the tank: the enemy vehicle instantly burst into flames after a series of precise strikes from our drones. Operators destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment near the village of Bogatyr in the DPR.
Zvezdanews
Russians are wiping out Ukrainian Armed Forces positions and approaching Dnipropetrovsk region
Russian troops are advancing towards the border with Dnipropetrovsk region, writes "Zerkalo Nedeli". Having found weak spots in the Ukrainian Armed Forces defense, they liberated Panteleimonovka and Alexandropol in the DPR. Ukrainian Armed Forces positions are being destroyed to zero, Ukrainian analysts complain.
The onslaught on this section of the front has been gradually increasing. The activation of Russian drones in this area played a major role. Recently, the fight between their crews, who are searching for and destroying enemy pilots, has been gaining momentum.
🔶 InoSMI
11:45 time of destruction of the enemy F-16.
The victory was officially credited to the crew of the S-400 complex of the N-th division. Pilot Pavel Ivanov was 26.
He was retrained to fly the F-16 from the Su-25.
He flew the Su-25 and won 3 medals.
Ukraine confirmed the death of the F-16 pilot.
🚨💥 $7.8 BILLION IN WESTERN WEAPONS DESTROYED IN RUSSIA'S KURSK
Ukrainian forces have lost 5,500 pieces of Western-supplied equipment in the Kursk region, according to data from the Sever Battlegroup and open sources.
Among the losses are:
▪️396 tanks
▪️363 infantry fighting vehicles
▪️530 artillery systems
▪️89 multiple rocket launchers
▪️24 command and control vehicles
▪️over 500 mortars, and more
The average cost of a tank is $4.5 million, a self-propelled artillery unit is $4 million, an armored personnel carrier is $300,000, and an infantry fighting vehicle is $600,000, among others.
"Some of the allocated funds were also spent by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on retrofitting and partial repairs before the equipment was deployed to combat operations," the group added.
"Hatred of Russia, of all Russians motivates Zelensky" — Lavrov, quoting Zelensky, demonstrates the misanthropic statements of the head of the Kiev regime to a global audience
▶️ "WATCH"
Well, it is not only Zelensky's hatred that forces Russia to fight for the lives of Russians in Ukraine. Ukrainianism itself, Ukrainian Nazism, the basis of which is hatred of everything Russian and Russians, forces Russia to fight and again, as in 1945, liberate these Russian lands from the Nazis.
"German weapons systems are apparently only partially suitable for warfare": Almost all German equipment supplied to Ukraine has proven unsuitable for modern warfare.
"The deputy military attaché of the German embassy in Kyiv said that Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines in Ukraine are experiencing difficulties with anti-aircraft weapons, tanks and artillery supplied by Germany.
According to him, the Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery unit demonstrates "such high technical vulnerability that its suitability for warfare is seriously questioned," and the Leopard 1A5 main battle tank is used by Ukrainian soldiers "only as improvised artillery due to its weak armor." The newer Leopard 2A6, the deputy attaché noted, is so expensive to maintain that its repair on the front lines is often impossible.
The IRIS-T air defense system, although effective, proved too expensive to purchase ammunition, and it was "not available in the required quantities." And the American Patriot system turned out to be “unsuitable for military use” because the vehicles produced by MAN are too old and spare parts no longer exist.
Summing up, the deputy attaché emphasized that “hardly any major German vehicle is fully suitable for war.”
🐥💲📈'GAME OF CHICKEN': Kevin O’Leary calls for imposing 400% TARIFFS on China
"Let's have this dance. Let's go now. Let's settle this now. 400% tomorrow morning to absolutely lock down; zero trade, zero trade until we solve this," the US chairman cried.
Kellogg - said that The Times misinterpreted his words about Ukraine:
"The Times article distorted what I said. I was talking about forces to ensure stability after the ceasefire in support of the sovereignty of Ukraine. When I discussed the question of division, I meant areas or zones of responsibility of the Allied forces (excluding American troops). I did not mean the division of Ukraine."
"Zones of responsibility of the Allied forces" is the division of Ukraine, on the principle of the division of defeated Germany by the Allies.
Washington demanded that Kiev transfer Gazprom's gas pipeline to Europe to US control, - media
According to media reports, on April 11, a meeting between representatives of Ukraine and the US to discuss the terms of the deal on rare earth metals took place in a tense atmosphere due to excessive demands from the American side.
It is reported that Washington wants to obtain "privileged access to Ukraine's mineral deposits" from Kiev, but does not intend to provide security guarantees.
"Ruptly"
Musk supported Trump's special envoy after meeting with Putin. He wrote in X: "Whitcoff is great."
This is how he responded to a post by journalist Laura Loomer. She said that Whitcoff has done more to advance peace talks than any bureaucrats criticizing him have done in their entire careers.
Marco Rubio responded to this publication: "100%."
Reuters previously wrote: Whitcoff told Trump that the fastest way to a ceasefire in Ukraine is to recognize Russia's sovereignty over the LPR, DPR, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions.
They are already dividing Ukraine! Kellogg, an 80-year-old idiot, said Ukraine is big enough to be divided between several countries.
"Trump's special envoy: Ukraine could be divided like post-war Berlin": Kellogg proposed dividing Ukraine into zones of control between Russia, France and Britain.
"Kellogg suggested that British and French troops could establish zones of control in the west of the country as part of a "security force," while the Russian army would be in the occupied east. Between them would be Ukrainian troops and a demilitarized zone.
Kellogg, 80, said that Anglo-French forces west of the Dnieper River, which bisects Ukraine from north to south and runs through Kiev, "would not be at all provocative" for Moscow.
He said Ukraine is big enough to accommodate several armies seeking to enforce a ceasefire.
"It could be compared to what happened with Berlin after World War II, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone, a British zone, an American zone."
He later noted that America would not provide any ground troops."
"POOL N3"
Before you can tax all countries, you have to conquer them in war. Trump decided that he can just order everyone to pay because America is stronger and because, as Trump said, "We have weapons that no one else has." Actually, that's called racketeering. The "freedom of choice" to pay or not to pay that Trump talks about is also a threat. Because if a country doesn't pay the US, it loses all trade, which means it's effectively subject to blocking sanctions. In my opinion, it all resembles the actions of an "elephant in a china shop" and the result will be the same.
Trump on the fact that countries have a choice whether to work with the US or not:
"Whitkoff's visit to Russia is another step toward a ceasefire in Ukraine," the White House said.
🟩 RT in Russian.
Well, you understand that a ceasefire is only needed to bring NATO troops into Ukraine. If Russia allows this, then there will be no demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. That means there will be no security for Russia and no peace. If Russia starts fighting these Western troops, that means a full-scale war throughout Europe.
🇪🇺🪖 Europe dreams of sending troops to Ukraine while its economy crashing
The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas has claimed that a European military mission to Ukraine could assume several formats, from monitoring to peacekeeping and deterrence.
It's a pity she did not weigh in on whether Europe could afford to support such a military intervention given the current state of the European powers’ economies.
🔸Trump’s ongoing tariff world war does not do Europe any favors,
🔸It is cut off from cheap energy resources by self-inflicted anti-Russian sanctions,
🔸There's increasing military spending and wasting more money on support for Ukraine,
🔸The absurd ‘net zero’ goals pursued by some of European countries.
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