💡WHAT A BRIGHT IDEA: For Ukrainian forces to leave their armored vehicle out in the open, as Russian anti-tank guided missile corkscrews toward it and lands direct hit (00:11), causing bumper blast and white-hot light like world's most expensive lightbulb.

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⚡️🇺🇦🇬🇧🇷🇺 Ukrainian tank crews have completed training on Challenger 2 tanks in UK - British Defense Ministry.

UK is set to give Kiev 14 of these tanks.

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🙄 WITH OFFICIALS LIKE THESE… Mr. Russia needs to be destroyed Danilov, who also spends his time as Ukrainian Defense Council Secretary, has his own hot take on Putin planning to store nukes in Belarus, claiming in his infinite wisdom that move will destabilize Minsk and Kremlin’s taken Belarus as nuclear HOSTAGE.

Sorry Danilov but only hostage is Kiev regime, trapped as Washington's puppet in proxy war against Russia - Moscow and Minsk ain’t gonna stop being best buds as they both forge ahead in creation of new multipolar world.

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🇯🇵Japan will continue to participate in oil and gas projects on Sakhalin for the sake of its energy security - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida

🗣As for the process of getting out of dependence on Russia in the energy sector, in the second half of last year we reduced oil imports from Russia by 90%, coal - by 60%; demand for liquefied natural gas expected to grow in in the future - Kishida.

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😹CAT'S ALL, FOLKS: Norwegian ammo producer Nammo blames pesky CAT VIDEOS on Tiktok for threatening the growth and expansion of its plant as a power grid crunch squeezes the site's capacity.

We are concerned because we see our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos - Morten Brandtzæg, CEO of Nammo.

Obviously the feline reels are to blame - not anti-Russian sanctions or EU energy policies.

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🗣Dmitry Birichevsky, Head of Russian Foreign Ministry's economic cooperation department:

▪️Moscow not going to leave the World Trade Organization despite attempts by a number of countries to push Russia out.

▪️Russia remains in the WTO to maintain stable ties with developing states that are ready to continue cooperation on an equal basis and with mutual consideration of interests.

▪️Refusal of membership in organization would be perceived by West as effectiveness of their anti-Russian stance.

▪️Attempts to hinder Russian diamond exports could disrupt value chains and harm the industry.

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💸✖️BANKING ON FAILURE: 2008 is making its comeback as banks fall like dominoes into bankruptcy, with banking holding First Citizens buying up deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which went bankrupt before banks Signature and Silvergate met the same fate.

Yet, the banks are the rule - not the exception - of crony capitalism's creed, as 186 other American banks expected to run into the same crash, threatened by "potential risk of a run" similar to that which befell SVB, with $300 billion in insured deposits facing potential losses according to recent study conducted by a team of economists at top US universities.

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🇮🇱🛫Airport workers halt departures from Israel's Ben Gurion Airport have been suspended in protest against judicial reform

Action taken as part of Israeli general strike in Israel, airport staff still undecided on accepting flights from abroad.

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🏋‍♂🇷🇺 Russian and Belarusian athletes will be able to take part in the 2032 Summer Olympics in Brisbane - Australian National Olympic Committee.

😭 Kiev and its allies to boycott Brisbane's Olympics in 3,2,1...

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🗣Kremlin Spokesman Peskov:

◾️ West's reaction will not affect plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

◾️ Information indicates that attack on the Nord Streams could not have been carried out without participation of states and their special services

◾️ West taking all measures to wind up topic of Nord Streams, but Russia will not allow it

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🎫DON'T CROSS THE TICKET LINE: Nobody's going anywhere in Germany as planes, busses and trains SCREECH to a HALT after Berlin transit workers kick off biggest strike in decades - which went into effect Monday at midnight.

Two of the country's largest trade unions are deadlocked in negotiations with public sector employers as workers seek pay increases of at least 10.5% amidst the crunch of soaring inflation caused mainly by failure of anti-Russian sanctions.

How's that 11th package of sanctions going? 🤹

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