Notices by Russia-Ukraine Daily News (rvps2001@mastodon.social)

🇺🇲 🇨🇳 #Trump is set to impose an additional 84% in levies across all Chinese imports on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Tuesday. That will mean all goods from the country are subject to a tariff of at least 104%.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/business/trump-china-tariff

#usa #china

🇩🇪 German security officials say they are carefully examining possible indications of foreign finance or influence in a series of attacks in German cities in the past year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dg48g79jvo

#germany #russia

🇬🇧🇪🇺 The UK has circulated plans for European countries to establish a “supranational institution” that jointly purchases military equipment, stockpiles weapons and helps to finance large-scale rearmament across the continent.

The informal paper, written by UK officials, presents the case for a multilateral fund for a “coalition of the willing” that would borrow on markets at favourable rates and support defence spending.
https://www.ft.com/content/93d7168b-75a3-41e3-ba5a-4f378b93a709

Archive: https://archive.is/kwgRo

#Europe #Britain

🇳🇴 The insurance issued to dozens of ageing oil tankers used by #Russia to skirt international sanctions was bogus, according to Norwegian authorities now investigating the small firm behind the forged documents.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/firm-issued-fake-insurance-russian-oil-tankers-norways-fsa-says-2025-04-02/

#norway

ISW:

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces may leverage their bridgehead northeast of Lyman to seize the remaining 1% of Luhansk Oblast under Ukrainian control and complete #Russia's long-standing goal of seizing the entirety of Luhansk Oblast.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-1-2025

#ukraine

🇺🇦 #Ukraine will hold in-depth talks on Friday with a small group of foreign countries about contributing forces to a contingent that would act as a security guarantee for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-discuss-foreign-troop-contingent-multilateral-talks-friday-2025-04-01/

🤡 The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Putin was open to the idea of restoring relations between #Finland and #Russia, which it accused❗Helsinki of reducing to "nearly zero" after it joined NATO 🤦

Yeah, Finland, why would you do that?! 😁

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-is-open-normalising-ties-with-finland-if-helsinki-wants-rebuild-ties-2025-04-01/

🇬🇧 A UK space firm has replaced a Russian corporation in a European project to search for signs of life on Mars.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1egpwqw4vjo

#europe #britain #russia

🇳🇱🇺🇦 The #Netherlands will allocate 2 billion euros to support #Ukraine in 2025, said Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans and State Secretary Gijs Tuinman on March 31.

https://kyivindependent.com/netherlands-pledges-2-billion-for-ukraine/

🇸🇪🇺🇦 #Sweden will provide #Ukraine with a military aid package worth almost $1.6 billion, Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson announced on March 31.

https://kyivindependent.com/sweden-unveils-its-largest-military-aid-package-for-ukraine-worth-nearly-1-6-billion/

🇷🇺 Russian courts have confiscated assets worth close to €25.6 billion from over 400 privately owned companies since the start of the war in Ukraine, research by Novaya Gazeta Europe has revealed.

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/03/28/russian-state-seizes-assets-worth-over-eur25bn-from-privately-owned-companies-since-start-of-war-en

#russia

🇺🇸 The information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed in the Signal chat of top #Trump national security officials was highly classified at the time he wrote it, especially because the operation had not even started yet, CNN reports.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/26/politics/the-atlantic-publishes-signal-messages-yemen-strike/index.html

#usa

🇺🇲 Transparency nonprofit American Oversight filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., alleging that the use of Signal violates the federal law that governs the preservation of government records.

The lawsuit names Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, Bessent, and Rubio as defendants.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawsuit-trump-administrations-signal-group-chat-assigned-judge/story?id=120175517

#usa

🤡 U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted the start time for a planned killing of a Houthi militant in Yemen on March 15 as well as other details of imminent waves of U.S. airstrikes, according to a screenshot of a text chat released by The Atlantic on Wednesday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagons-hegseth-texted-planned-time-targeted-killing-yemeni-terrorist-2025-03-26/

The Atlantic: https://archive.is/PKHpH

#usa

🇺🇲 Private contact details of the most important security advisers to #Trump can be found on the internet. DER SPIEGEL reporters were able to find mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to the top officials.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/hegseth-waltz-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7

#usa #cybersecurity

#Opinion

"Witkoff’s statements should have triggered immediate disqualification from any serious role in ceasefire negotiations. His remarks are not simply ideologically suspect — they violate the foundational principles of international law."

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5211514-witkoff-ukraine-news-ethics/

#usa #ukraine

🇷🇺 A Russian Su-25 attack aircraft crashed during a routine training flight in Primorye Krai in #Russia's Far East, the Russian Defense Ministry said on March 24.

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-su-25-crashes-during-training-flight-in-primorye-krai-defense-ministry-says/

🦜 "In an interview on March 21 with Tucker Carlson, Witkoff openly parroted Russian #propaganda and agreed with most of the Kremlin's talking points."

https://kyivindependent.com/i-dont-regard-putin-as-a-bad-guy-witkoff-says-on-negotiations-with-russia/

#usa #russia #trump #putin

🗣️ The biggest obstacle to resolving Russia’s war in #Ukraine is the status of #Crimea and the four mainland Ukrainian regions occupied by #Russia, said US special envoy Steve Witkoff, calling them “the elephant in the room” in peace talks.

My translation: 'Our biggest obstacle to establishing a great rapport with Russia is Ukraine.'

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/europe/witkoff-carlson-trump-russia-ukraine-talks-intl/index.html

#usa

🇬🇧🇪🇪 If royal visits are about sending a message, then the picture of the Prince of Wales in a tank near the Russian border must be one of the most direct.

Prince William has come to #Estonia to support UK troops in what is now the British Army's biggest operational deployment overseas, defending the Baltic state from the threat of #Russia

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70eyg099j5o

#britain