❗️Russia will repay external debts in rubles, and then it will be possible to convert them into foreign currency when Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves are unfrozen, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said.

"A special procedure has been established for servicing external debts, including state debts. We will repay our external obligations in rubles, and we will carry out the conversion by unfreezing gold and foreign exchange reserves," Siluanov said at a meeting of Russian President Putin with members of the government.

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⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry: Nuclear war is impossible, it would be the end of civilisation

⚡️ Biden blames Putin's actions for US inflation reaching new 40-year high

⚡️ Intel director: US provided biosafety assistance at around a dozen biolabs in Ukraine

⚡️ Russian MoD: Alleged Mariupol 'airstrike' nothing short of provocation to fuel anti-Russian hysteria

❗️The US is providing Ukraine with an enormous amount of intelligence amid Russia's ongoing special operation in the country, according to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.

"We are providing [an] enormous amount of intelligence", Haines said.

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⚡️ White House: US has no intention of sending troops to Ukraine even if non-conventional weapons are used there

❗️Jen Psaki on Poland's jet offer to Ukraine: US assessment was based on how to prevent world war

⚡️ White House spokeswoman Psaki says no active conversation with Venezuela about oil imports

Last month it was the pandemic, now it’s Putin 👀

📹: 'Nobody said that we could go to Russia'

Yusuf, a Moroccan citizen who had been living in Kharkov for four years by the time the crisis escalated, says he didn’t know Russia was a safe place to escape hostilities.

"On the contrary, everyone told us to flee from Russia, to Poland", he recalls. "I asked Russian soldiers for help and they helped me".

Now after he’s been provided with food and shelter, Yusuf calls on foreigners stuck in Ukraine to do the same.

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🛫Former President Trump is asking his supporters to help fund his new "Trump Force One," a private plane just days after a jet flying him to Mar-a-Lago made an emergency landing when one of its engines failed.

Through his Save America PAC, Trump sent his supporters an email titled "Update Trump Force One" in which he said that "my team is building a BRAND NEW Trump Force One."

The fundraising email said he had "a very important update on his plane" and asked potential donors if they remember how the former president used to travel across the U.S. in his own "Trump Force One" before he became "the greatest President of all time."

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🎙Victoria Nuland has confirmed the “Russian disinformation” they've been telling us is a conspiracy theory, is totally and completely true, Tucker Carlson says.

The Fox News host said Thursday that the Biden administration should not lie about the Biolabs in Ukraine and at the same time accuse Russia of “lies”. He pointed out that being “the poorest country in Europe”, Ukraine is “hardly a hotbed of biomedical research.”

“We're assuming these weren't pharmaceutical labs, probably not developing new Leukemia drugs. From your answer, Victoria Nuland, we would assume because you all but said it, that there's a military application to this research, that they were working on bioweapons. Again, your answer suggests that,” Carlson said.

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❗️🍫Mars stops investing in business in Russia, as well as importing or exporting products, the company's press service said.

⚡️🇺🇸🇶🇦 Biden has designated Qatar as a major non-NATO ally of the United States

❗️🇷🇺 Russia is ready to resist sanctions, the Foreign Ministry says, adding that though it will be difficult, there is no panic

Moscow is not ruling out that even worse scenarions of sanctions may take place, but believes that the West may step back.

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🔎The suicide of a Washington, DC police officer nine days after he was attacked during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has been deemed a line-of-duty death, a report said.

The ruling in the death of Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith enables his widow to receive his benefits – including an annuity equal to his pay at the time of his suicide, CNN reported.

Jeffrey Smith fatally shot himself on Jan. 15, 2021, after leaving his Virginia home for what would have been his first day back to work following a medical leave.

The late officer’s widow, Erin Smith, had been fighting for the line-of-duty death designation. The District of Columbia’s Police and Firefighters’ Retirement and Relief Board initially denied her request.

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🏛The White House attempted Thursday to shift the blame for the stratospheric inflation numbers onto Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite the fact that the surge in gas prices driving the overall increase was underway long before Russia announced a special military operation in Ukraine.

“Today’s inflation report is a reminder that Americans’ budgets are being stretched by price increases and families are starting to feel the impacts of Putin’s price hike,” President Biden said in a statement after the Labor Department announced that consumer prices rose 7.9 percent over the 12-month period ending in February — the highest year-ending increase since January 1982.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price of gasoline rose by 38 percent over the previous 12 months — and most analysts predict inflation will get worse after Biden announced a ban on imports of Russian oil, natural gas, and coal Tuesday.

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