🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡Bloomberg: EU develops plan to buy gas from Russia without violating sanctions

The European Union intends to offer gas importers a solution that, on the one hand, allows them to avoid violating sanctions when buying fuel in Russia, and, on the other hand, to satisfy the requirements of the Russian Federation to pay in rubles.

The executive body of the EU at a closed meeting allowed the governments of European countries to open ruble accounts in Gazprombank and buy Russian gas. However, companies must make a clear statement that they consider their obligations fulfilled when they pay in euros or dollars in accordance with existing contracts. After that, European buyers should not require any action from Russia regarding payment.

The EU's executive body has told governments that the guidance will allow them to buy gas without violating anti-Russian sanctions.

According to Putin's decree, companies must open two accounts with Gazprombank - one in euros and one in rubles. At the same time, payments for gas are not credited until the conversion of euros into rubles.

Earlier it was reported that 20 European companies have already opened ruble accounts with Gazprombank, 14 have requested documents for opening an account, and 4 have already made a payment in rubles.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Soldiers of the 1st Mechanized Battalion of the DPR Territorial Defense, with the support of the Russian army, destroyed the fortified area of ​​the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of New York (Novgorodskoye, DPR). The former positions of the 25th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and later of the TRO detachments, were cleared with surgical precision. The enemy fled from the positions, abandoning foreign weapons, without even trying to use them. All trophies will be used to liberate the city of Novgorodskoye from the Nazis.

🇩🇪🇺🇦⚡In Germany, on the houses where Ukrainian refugees live, the Germans draw "Z"

Thus, local residents protest against the careless and arrogant behavior of visitors to whom "everyone owes everything."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ Azovstal is hit with cluster rounds "so that the fly does not fly." I can already hear the Ukrainian side saying that Russia is using some kind of banned incendiary munitions.

As if the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not burn exactly the same half of Semyonovka near Slavyansk in 2014. I saw it with my own eyes, I came under such a bombardment during the day, when the civilians, who then remained in the village, were poring in the vegetable gardens.

As if the Ukrainians did not pour these ammunition on the Donetsk airport and the nearby Kyiv region. As if they were not used over Promka and Shirokino.

And hello, please. Guard, The Hague and that's all. Let's not be cunning, there is still a difference between the bombing of peaceful neighborhoods and military installations, where, according to Kyiv, there are no civilians left.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Special Forces "Brave" goes on another hunt

Deep reconnaissance group advances behind enemy lines

The whole eastern front south and north of Donetsk is 🔥

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️The first footage of the liquidated Ukrainian special forces on Snake Island.

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗The Security Service of Ukraine made an attempt to arrange a provocation in the colony in Kherson, releasing people from the cells, but the organized riot was suppressed by the Russian military

Deputy head of the Kherson region Kirill Stremousov

🇸🇪❗Sweden may apply to NATO on Tuesday, May 17

Svenska Dagbladet

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Chemical plant "Zarya" in Rubezhnoye, according to the NM of the LPR, was mined with 49 tons of explosives. The electronic warfare units managed to block the signal that was supposed to produce the explosion.

To make it clearer, this is a plant for the production of explosives - ammonite, ammonal, TNT A, TNT B. Imagine what would happen if fifty tons of this good were blown into the air. There would be nothing left of this unfortunate crippled Rubizhny.

This, by the way, also speaks of the jewelery of the work of those who stormed the plant, preventing it from being turned into another Azovstal.

🇺🇦🐽 Unique filming from the Azovstal bunker, on the video, the Nazis Kalina and Volyn along with their brothers, are resting before the decisive battle.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Zu-23 and T-72 destroy the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️In the area of ​​Severodonetsk, BMPT "Terminator" were spotted.

🇫🇮❗Finland is likely to apply for NATO membership on May 18 - Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡“Four enemy missiles hit one of the military infrastructure facilities in the Lviv region. The facility is completely destroyed,” Gauleiter of the Lviv region Maxim Kozitsky.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 From the ground they report on the results of yesterday's attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to penetrate the positions of our troops in the Malinovka area:

Yesterday, from 09.00, the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to hit the flank of our group in the direction of Gulyaipole-Malinovka.

Several groups came out with the support of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles. They could not enter the joints between our units. Active actions continued until the evening.

The enemy had no tactical success. Enemy losses confirmed: 30 tanks, 11 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 armored personnel carriers, 2 Grad MLRS, irretrievable losses of the enemy - more than 300. The numbers are very serious, but nonetheless.

There are losses on our side too - irretrievable 15, injured - 11. There are no data on technology.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Fighting began for the villages of Shchedrishchevo and Voronovo near Severodonetsk.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A powerful explosion at the AFU facility after the Russian Army hit