⚡️ US will continue to further provoke tensions in Taiwan Strait and on Korean Peninsula in order to escalate situation in China - Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Chief Naryshkin.

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TALK ABOUT BAD TIMING (OR IS IT?): It's Hanukkah, you wake up happy and first thing you see is a crossword resembling a NAZI Swastika, not really the start you'd want as New York Times publishes crossword strikingly similar to symbol behind MILLIONS of deaths, drawing WRATH of Americans who've already seen too many Nazi logos in Ukraine but don't like seeing it so close to home 😰

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🇪🇺🇷🇺Hungary, Germany and 7 other EU countries speak out against Russian gas price cap but fail to get enough support to block proposal - Hungarian Foreign Ministry

EU energy ministers meeting in Brussels in attempt to push through price cap despite calls against move by big players such as Berlin, who fear cap could MUTILATE EU energy markets.

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🇬🇧🇷🇺 Europe must ignore any calls for ceasefire from Russia until it withdraws its troops from military operation zone

🗣 West should continue to focus on reducing Russia’s military power, any calls for negotiations could allow Russian forces to regroup and replenish - UK PM Rishi Sunak.

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⚡️🇧🇾 Vital decision on closer integration of Russia and Belarus once again demonstrates to the whole world that only together can any pandemics, crises or sanctions be overcome - Belarusian President Lukashenko.

UPDATE:🗣 Russia and Belarus open for dialogue with other states, I hope they will listen to voice of reason and we can discuss security issues - Lukashenko.

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🗣 Belarus is our ally in truest sense of word, our priority is developing economic ties between 2 countries - Putin at meeting with Belarusian President Lukashenko in Minsk.

⚡️🇪🇺 EU countries agree on Russian gas price cap - Czech Presidency of European Council.

UPDATE: Price cap set at €180/Megawatt-Hour, and will come into force on February 25, 2023.

For comparison, EU natural gas futures currently trading at average of €115/Megawatt-Hour.

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🇨🇦⚡️Canada begins to FREEZE assets of Roman Abramovich, Russian-Israeli former owner of Chelsea Football Club and proud owner of the world's 2nd most expensive super yacht Solaris (he used to have this in his bio on Twitter.🙄)

Solaris was today seen to move East from Italy, where it has been since 2021, to an unknown location.

Abramovich openly discredited Russia in its Operation in Ukraine, and allegedly donated the proceeds from sale of Chelsea FC to Zelensky.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦Kiev hasn't yet received arms under US lend-lease weapons programme for Ukraine as this is a big burden for Ukrainian budget, Washington currently using other methods to transfer weapons to Kiev - Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nikolenko.

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🇷🇺 Special Operation was absolutely necessary to thwart plans to turn Ukraine anti-Russia - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov

There will be a long era of transition to multipolarity, it will not be simple - Lavrov.

UPDATE: Putin and Belarusian President Lukashenko confirmed unshakable course towards cooperation and strengthening of sovereignties of the countries - Lavrov.

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