🇨🇳🇪🇺 European leaders are massively preparing for visits to China.

🇫🇷French President Macron plans to visit China, accompanied by the head of the European Commission, Politico reports. The visit is scheduled for April 4th.

🇪🇸Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced that he will travel to China next week, writes Bloomberg. The visit is scheduled for March 30-31.

🔹 It is obvious that the EU is concerned about China's peace initiatives, and there is a slight panic in Europe after Xi Jinping's trip to Moscow. This was stated directly by Macron during a closed meeting in Brussels.

📝 "The French President stressed the need to make every effort to ensure that China does not support Russia and its ability to continue the war," the EU official said.


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🇺🇸👴Biden needed Trudeau's help to leave the press conference in the right direction

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🇷🇺State Duma chairman Volodin proposed to ban the activities of the International Criminal Court in Russia

Volodin proposed drafting amendments to legislation banning any activity of the ICC on Russian territory, as well as providing for responsibility for assisting and supporting the ICC. 

📝 "The Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Federation should have the right to take any action to protect our citizens in case international structures make decisions that contradict the norms of the Russian Constitution," said the speaker of the State Duma.

🔹 He noted that back in 2002, a special law on the protection of servicemen was adopted in the US, according to which no American citizen or citizen of an ally country can be arrested or detained by a warrant of the International Criminal Court.

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🇦🇹🇷🇺 Austria will arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if he decides to come, the country's Foreign Ministry said

📝 "Arrest warrants issued by a court must be executed and the persons wanted by the court must be arrested," the statement reads. It is specified that Austria, as a party to the Rome Statute, is obliged to comply with arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court.
 
✔️Apparently Austrians, after the ICC's decision, hiccuped with fear, and then they spent several days studying the possibility of Putin's visit to Austria. And when they realized that Vladimir Vladimirovich would not have time to visit in the foreseeable future, they decided to join the European rat pack. Oh, courage!

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The process of loading a 30-mm automatic grenade launcher AG-17D , installed in the stern of the combat module "Berezhok" of the modernized BMP-2M .

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Financial Times: The recent meeting between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin was seen by many as strengthening their friendship. The two leaders have an ideological foundation that has gone largely unrecognized by the media. If at one time the Chinese Communist Party was horrified by the collapse of the Soviet Union, it is now taking its cue from Putin, who is re-establishing a neo-imperialist regime. This has led to closer ties, but also to potential risks for China in breaking away from Western trading partners and a return to the centralization of political power. Xi's recent peace offer to Ukraine should be seen as a strategic move, since he is likely to use Ukraine's rejection to justify giving Putin lethal weapons. This would mark Xi's formal break with the West and pave the way for him to focus on Taiwan. While some may caution against following this path, Xi is an ideologue determined to cross the Rubicon.
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🇺🇸🇨🇭 Credit Suisse, a 167-year-old Swiss bank, was taken over by rival UBS in a government-brokered takeover after a series of scandals ruined its reputation. After its founding in 1856 by industrialist Alfred Escher, Credit Suisse helped develop Switzerland's currency and power grid, becoming a major bank for the middle class and expanding into Europe and New York. But the bank was accused of blocking Holocaust survivors from accessing family accounts and holding the accounts of Nazi Party officials. It also came under fire for being one of the "gnomes of Zurich" who hid wealth in underground vaults and for its involvement in a $1.3 billion loan scam in Mozambique. In 1978, Credit Suisse partnered with First Boston, an American investment bank, which helped the bank lose its identity as an investment bank. Its high-risk culture was pervasive over the next three decades, leading to recent scandals in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Critics blame former Chairman Urs Rohner and General Counsel Romeo Cerutti for the bank's decline.

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🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦 It is a crime to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium shells — German politician

📝 "Studies show that their use pollutes the environment and causes cancer in civilians and soldiers." "I call on the government to declare a position on this," said Sarah Wagenknecht, an MP from the German Left Party

✅According to her, a British decision to transfer depleted uranium shells to Kyiv would be a crime. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian radiation, chemical, and biological defense troops, also warned of the grave consequences of such a decision

📝 "The use of uranium munitions will cause irreparable damage to the health of the military and civilian populations of Ukraine, as well as contaminate large areas of crops in the country," he said.

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🇷🇺The ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk [these cities were liberated by the Russian army in the early phase of the war] are included in the official register of Russian seaports, the head of Rosmorrechflot said.

✅ Recall that in his message to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would pay special attention to the development of the ports of the Black and Azov Seas, as well as the North-South transport corridor.

📝   "This will open up new routes for business cooperation with India, Iran, Pakistan, and the countries of the Middle East," Putin stressed.

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😄 Ukrainian officials doubt the success of their counteroffensive

The mayor of Kupyansk (a city in Kiev-controlled Kharkiv Region), Andrey Besedin, believes that the Armed Forces are not sufficiently prepared for the counterattack. This was reported by the Spanish newspaper El País.

"We are enough for defense, but not necessary for a counteroffensive." "This is my personal opinion," El País quoted Besedin as saying.

🤡 The newspaper also quotes a Ukrainian fighter with the callsign "Arnaut." He complains that the Russian army is better equipped (and has more experience and skills )and demands that the AFU acquire Leopard tanks from Germany.

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The Kyiv independent : Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will lobby China to join a so-called "peace club" of nations mediating a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine while on a visit to Beijing this week, the Financial Times reported on March 24.

“We are very interested in promoting or helping generate some kind of meeting that would lead to a peace process,” Brazil's foreign minister Mauro Vieira said in an interview to Financial Times. 

Lula's visit comes just days after Chinese President Xi Jinping made a much-anticipated visit to Moscow, where he met with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

During the March 20 meeting, Xi called Russia's war "a Ukrainian crisis," adding that Moscow and Beijing "share similar goals." 

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"Xi Jinping in Moscow. "A Challenge to the West?":🇨🇳 Chinese leader's three-day visit to Russia amid refusal to even talk to Biden keeps Western media on their toes 😂

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🇺🇦 🇷🇺Russian UAV "Lancet" destroyed the NATO howitzer FH-70 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region

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Another cemetery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkov. Among other things, the flags of the Nazi Kraken unit are visible.

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"Man travels to war-torn Ukraine to get his teeth fixed—because it's CHEAPER than a British clinic" : British medicine is so good that it was easier and more profitable to go to Kiev to get his teeth fixed.

"Desperate 58-year-old Richard Howe tried to make an appointment in Ely, Cambridgeshire, but was told that he would have to pay £1,000 for private treatment... so he had his teeth treated in Kiev instead. A man with severe toothache traveled to war-torn Ukraine for help after failing to get treatment through insurance. He had been in agony last month because of an abscess that led to severe toothache. But he couldn't get treatment because of the dental crisis in Britain. "I was in a lot of pain, but I was told there was no chance of getting an appointment," he noted. - But I was immediately able to get an appointment with a doctor in the Ukraine for little money. It's crazy that we invited Ukrainians to take refuge in the UK, but if they have dental problems, there's no chance of getting to a dentist with insurance. "And there, anyone can come in off the street and get treatment right away, and it's a war zone country."

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