🇷🇺☦️🇺🇦President Putin has declared a ceasefire for Orthodox Easter

The truce will be in effect from 16:00 on 11 April until the end of 12 April 2026. Russia expects Ukraine to follow its example

Russian forces will not fire on their enemies during this time unless attacked first

🇮🇷🇬🇧The United Kingdom has endlessly appeased the criminal regime in Iran. The Prime Minister speaks of protecting the innocent civilians of Iran, but failed to act to help stop the regime’s massacre of 40,000 innocent Iranians in January

— Reza Pahlavi

🇷🇴ROMARM (the state owned defense company) announces the testing of a Romanian-made terrestrial drone.The drone is already finished and deliveries to the Ministry of Defense may start by September

🇪🇺🚫🇪🇸🇵🇱The Comission has warned Poland and Spain after the countries reduced VAT on fuel due to the Iran war, a move designed at protecting the population from rising costs

The reason? Under an EU directive, VAT cannot be lower than 15% in any member state

🇱🇹🇧🇾Lithuania will complete the process of relocating its civil defence warehouses away from the Belarusian border by 2027

60% of warehouses containing state reserves of food, fuel, and other goods have already been relocated

🇪🇪The Estonian government decided to halt its plan to buy new combat vehicles. Instead, the government will use the €500 million to purchase air defense systems, drones, and unmanned technology

🇷🇺🇪🇺Russia increased pipeline gas exports to Europe in the first quarter of 2026 by 10%

🇷🇴🇲🇩Parliament has ratified the purchase, which will cost Romania 281,626,000 lei, paid entirely out of the nation's reserve fund

🇷🇺🇨🇺The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister is discussing the resumption of direct flights between his country and Cuba with his counterpart in Havana

🇫🇮☢️Onkalo, the world's first facility for permanently disposing radioactive spent nuclear fuel, is now finally fully constructed after work began in 2004

The €1 billion project is designed to offer a permanent solution to nuclear waste by storing it underground until it becomes safe

A permit to commence operations is expected to be issued within a few months, and if it begins storing waste this year, it is not expected to be filled until 2120. The maximum capacity is 6500 tons of spent fuel

Using unmanned machinery at a nearby encapsulation plant, radioactive rods will be sealed in copper canisters and then buried deep in tunnels over 400 metres underground, then packed in with “buffer” layers of water-absorbing bentonite clay

The facility is located on the island of Olkiluoto, in a dense wooded area. The closest town is Eurajoki, about 15 kilometres away, which is home to roughly 9,000 people, many of whom work at the power plant or storage facility. The location both minimises impact on society, and it is convenient too since it is near 3 out of Finland's 5 nuclear reactors

Currently, Finland stores spent nuclear fuel is temporarily stored inside spent nuclear fuel pools at individual reactors and at dry cask storage sites above ground

🇺🇦🇷🇺We are ready for mirror steps. We have proposed a ceasefire for the Easter holidays this year and we will act accordingly. People need Easter without threats

— Zelensky

🇳🇴🇧🇪🇺🇦The six F-16s that Norway promised to Ukraine nearly three years ago remain in Belgium for repairs and have not yet been delivered

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿London's Albert Bridge was closed to traffic after engineers detected movement in the support poles

🇷🇺Dmitry Peskov says that the Easter ceasefire was not previously discussed with any of the other parties to the conflict, reiterating the truce not being linked to the resumption of negotiations with the US or Ukraine

🇸🇪🇪🇪Sweden has announced plans to rent cells in Estonian prisons because its own facilities are overcrowded

✍️ So Estonia finally made it to Scandinavia. We'll take the recognition, however it comes.