The Angela Merkel club of geopolitical hypocrites has added a new member.

Former French President Francois Hollande agreed with the former Chancellor of Germany that the Minsk agreements had given time to reinforce the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

"Since 2014, Ukraine has strengthened its military capacity." Indeed, the Ukrainian army was very different from what it was in 2014. "It has become better trained and equipped," he told Ukrainian media.

He also noted that the geopolitical situation during 2014–2015 was not favourable for Ukraine and that the West needed a respite.

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Serbia will not become a member of BRICS—Dacic

First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, said that Serbia will not become a member of the BRICS but will cooperate with this organization.

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❗️According to the warrior-subscribers of @milinfolive the Russian army is developing an offensive in the direction of Makeevka, LPR.

Reportedly, the shift of the front went in the direction of the settlement of Ploschanka, where the 76th Airborne Division of the RF Armed Forces fought successfully through several long forest belts. Together with the paratroopers, the 74th motorized rifle brigade also participates in the offensive. The main forces are supported by army special forces, which identify targets and correct artillery and MLRS fire.

The Ukrainian defense is gradually being pushed through, ,thanks to the timely identification and destruction of targets, however, the advance of the Russian armed forces is complicated by the continuous mining of this area and the constant counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Analysts at the WorldGold Council note that China and Russia are buying up gold at a record pace. The central banks of the two countries are buying gold at the fastest pace since 1967. Goodbye dollar!

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A Ukrainian aircraft was shot down by the Russian Armed Forces in recent days.

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"Yeah, blame Putin for the war in Ukraine. (But the West is not blameless)" - former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, Doug Bandow:

"It would be much better if the United States did not help prepare the ground for the terrible military conflict that is now raging between Ukraine and Russia. The US would do much better today if it showed strategic sympathy and thought about how Moscow would take support for the violent overthrow of an elected government in Ukraine that is friendly to Russia. If the Allies had not previously offered NATO membership to Kyiv, it would almost certainly have saved Moscow's wrath.

Today, the US would be much better off if it took Putin's demands seriously. Washington still had time to negotiate. "Western officials cannot escape their role in making this military conflict possibly inevitable."

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Undermining a missile from the Ukrainian S-300 air defense system that fell yesterday on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

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🇷🇺🇪🇺 The government of the Russian Federation asks president Vladimir Putin to completely break the agreements with the Council of Europe

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⚡️⚡️Ukraine faces an endless war. Zelensky's anti-Russian vows are to blame, writes the American magazine The Federalist.

"Because of Zelensky's oaths, the no-win conflict in Ukraine may continue indefinitely," the magazine said in a piece.

The authors of the piece believe that the Ukrainian president's vow is to continue fighting until Russia is defeated and pushed back to the 2014 borders. The likelihood of defeating the nuclear power is reduced to zero, which also does not promise an early end to the conflict, the author of the article concluded.

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At least 7 Il-76 military transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force were evacuated to the Deblin Air Force Base in Poland after the start of a special military operation.

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In his last day as president of Brazil, the right-wing pro-American Jair Bolsonaro fled the country to the US, using a Brazilian Air Force airplane. This could be merely to avoid taking part on the next president's inauguration ceremony, but also perhaps due to fears of being arrested.

The US has a long story of hosting their puppets and troublemakers, such as him and Guaidó, once their missions fail. This might be what will happen to Zelensky in the future.

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Russian Ministry rules out possibility of investing NWF assets in US dollars

Earlier, the Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that the 🇷🇺National Wealth Fund would be replenished in yuan within the framework of the fiscal rule in 2023.

The possibility of investing the funds of the Russian National Wealth Fund (NWF) into US dollar-denominated assets has been ruled out in accordance with the new normative framework of the NWF’s assets, the Russian Finance Ministry said on Friday.

"A new normative framework of the NWF’s assets in permitted foreign currency and gold has been approved, which eliminates the possibility of investing the finances of the Fund in assets denominated in US dollars," the ministry said in files released on its website.

According to the ministry, in order to ensure flexibility in the investment of the NWF’s funds it is suggested that virtual minimum shares of each of the assets in the new framework be zeroed out, whereas the share of Chinese yuan be limited to 60%, of noncash gold - to 40% (previously, the share of yuan and gold totaled 30% and 20%, respectively). Consequently, the limits on investment in yuan and gold have doubled. The remaining balance of the NWF in pounds sterling and Japanese yen in the Bank of Russia has been reduced to null by now. "As a result of those changes the currency structure of the NWF has become better adapted to challenges facing the Russian Federation amid the current macroeconomic and geopolitical environment," the ministry explained
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Briefly on the situation in the area of Kremennaya. Since yesterday, the Ukrainians have been trying to break through southwest of Kreminna and are conducting attacking actions in the Shipilovka area, with the intention of capturing Stara Krasnyanka.

Russia army aviation is actively working, enemy artillery and shock copters are also active. Interestingly, Yesterday, in the area of responsibility of the 144 motor rifle division, the concentration of Ukrainian personnel and equipment in the forest plantations in the area of Kremennaya was revealed, the artillery worked as it should,and the enemy units were destroyed.

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