🇶🇦🇺🇦 Qatar and Ukraine have signed a defense cooperation agreement

✴️ BTC stable and bouncing back

🇷🇺 Former head of Svyazinvest Yurchenko said he may increase his stake in VTB to 10%

🇺🇸🇮🇷 US Vice President Vance said the US has achieved most of its military objectives in Iran, and that Trump has made clear America does not want to remain in Iran for another year or two... and will leave soon

🇺🇦🇶🇦🇦🇪🇸🇦 Zelensky signed defense cooperation agreements with the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia as part of his Gulf states tour

🚫🇮🇷 Emirates Global Aluminium reports its Abu Dhabi plant suffered significant damage from Iranian attacks

IRGC says it struck US and Israeli industrial facilities in the region

⚠️🇮🇳🇪🇺 India and Europe say the Middle East conflict is beginning to weigh on their economic growth

✴️ TRX continues to hold strong relative to other major cryptocurrencies. Justin Sun is making efforts. In early February he stated that TRON has been buying, is buying, and will continue to buy TRX tokens on the market.

🇪🇺🇷🇺 Fico says Slovakia will not support the EU's 20th sanctions package against Russia due to the blockage of the "Druzhba" pipeline

🚫 Sony suspends memory card sales due to global SSD shortage

🔥🇺🇸 UNCONFIRMED, but for what it's worth:

Trump is convening an emergency meeting today at 6:30 PM ET.

Unusual for a weekend, unless something very serious is happening, experts note

🔥🇮🇷 Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran — WaPo

Any potential ground operation would not amount to a full-scale invasion and could instead involve raids conducted by special operations forces and conventional infantry units.

❗️🇷🇺 There is a high probability that Telegram's operation in Russia will be restored, Human Rights Council member Ionov told TASS.

According to him, the messenger's team will most likely reach an agreement with Russia and "fulfill the conditions required, particularly regarding extremism and channels that pose a threat to our country's national security."

🌾🔥 The Middle East conflict has already begun hitting the global food system — and the consequences could prove far more serious than rising oil prices. The longer the conflict drags on, the worse it will get — The Telegraph

The conflict threatens an unprecedented crisis in the fertilizer market: supplies of urea, ammonia, and sulfur have halted for 27 "critically important" days — right before the start of the planting season.

Up to a third of global urea trade and around half of sulfur supplies come from Gulf states.

⚠️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia is urging the US to fulfill what the two countries agreed upon in Anchorage, Alaska — Ushakov in an interview with Pavel Zarubin, responding to a question about why the Americans cannot demand that Kyiv comply with the agreements

⚠️🇺🇸🇷🇺 The US will most likely not lift sanctions on Russia before the end of Trump's presidential term, said Vyacheslav Nikonov following negotiations between Russian deputies and their American counterparts.

🛢️🇬🇧 The Times: Britain may send a ship to demine the Strait of Hormuz

⚠️🇺🇦 Kyiv received assurances from the US that Washington does not intend to transfer weapons designated for Ukraine to any other party, said Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha

🇷🇺 "When a special military operation is underway, fighters and their families need support, and the state must fulfill all social obligations — it is high time for the rich and very rich to prove in deed that they are Russians and patriots" — Senator Gibatdinov hopes that big business will help the state through its contributions.

⚠️🇰🇵 North Korea has tested an upgraded solid-fuel rocket engine that could be used in intercontinental missiles capable of striking the continental United States — AP