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Estonian authorities have detained a tanker belonging to the Russian “shadow fleet”, Postimees reports.
The Kiwala was stopped near the island of Aegna, in Muuga Bay. The country's navy said the purpose of the detention was to check the documents and legal status of the tanker used to transport crude oil.
At the time of the detention, there were 24 third-country nationals on board. The vessel did not have a flag of any state, which makes its presence at sea illegal. Estonia used the right of detention to conduct an inspection, the statement said.
So far it has merely detained and not seized said tanker. Think the latter will lead to a response. Estonia is playing with fire I think.
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Lieutenant General Ivan Gavrilyuk has been dismissed from the post of First Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustam Umerov.
According to Gavrilyuk, he is leaving of his own accord, but the reason is not given.
However, shortly before Gavrilyuk’s dismissal, journalist and member of the public anti-corruption council at the Ministry of Defense Tatyana Nikolaenko stated that he could leave his post as a result of a conflict with Umerov.
" The conflict has clearly been brewing for a long time. For several months I was told that Umerov no longer influences anything (he only goes to negotiations), and Gavrilyuk is a real minister. And soon he will become one. It seems that Umerov does not like rumors about competitors. Ivan Yuryevich [Gavrilyuk] has really strengthened his position in the sphere of procurement supervision, and, apparently, he crossed someone's path," Nikolayenko wrote.
Federal spending is higher since President Trump took office even as the Department of Government Efficiency slashes contracts, cuts jobs and ends diversity programs.
A Wall Street Journal analysis of daily financial statements issued by the Treasury Department found government spending since the inauguration is $154 billion more than in the same period in 2024 during the administration of former President Joe Biden.
DOGE claims cuts of $150 billion so far, but the Journal analysis found those efforts have yet to affect the bottom line.
And while the government’s income—taxes and revenues including tariffs—is also up, it isn’t enough to keep pace with higher spending.
Last fiscal year, about 73% of federal spending went to interest on the debt and mandatory programs like Social Security and Medicare that operate on autopilot. That amounted to $4.9 trillion.
FPV drones hit a Ukrainian AMX-10RC wheeled tank in the Kherson region.
I feel like taking out these silly wheeled tanks is like putting them out of their misery. It's an act of mercy,
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🇷🇺🇺🇸Putin and Witkoff concluded a meeting in St. Petersburg that lasted more than four hours.
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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Recognizing the status of new Russian territories is the fastest way to end the Ukrainian conflict - Witkoff
- The American diplomat personally told Trump about this after a meeting with Putin’s special representative Dmitriev.
- At the same meeting with Trump, General Keith Kellogg, the US President's special representative to Ukraine, spoke out against Witkoff's idea.
- The meeting ended without Trump making a specific decision on a new US strategy.
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Britain's involvement in the war in Ukraine is much deeper than many people realise - The Times
▪️In 2022, British troops were secretly sent to Ukraine, where they trained the Ukrainian Armed Forces to use NLAW anti-tank systems.
▪️The British were also in Ukraine to equip aircraft with Storm Shadow missiles and train them in their use.
▪️Defence Secretary Ben Wallace played a leading role in getting Ukraine the weapons it needed in the early days of fighting, and has been dubbed "the man who saved Kiev”.
▪️The British were called the "brains" of the anti-Russian coalition.
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out a counteroffensive very slowly, which caused particular disappointment in the United States.
▪️The Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces met with Zelensky about 10 times. British military personnel visited Ukraine much more often than American ones.
▪️John Foreman, a former British military attaché in Moscow and Kiev, is nervous about the looming prospect of an open-ended military commitment to Ukraine with an “undefined mission” that could last more than a decade.
Let’s be honest what this article should be titled is, “British Egos Bruised by New York Times Article not Mentioning Britain”. Sure a bunch of pretentious British blow hards were telling outlandish stories of their contributions.
We know about your contribution, Krynky and blocking a peace deal.
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Pistorius said it was time to raise money for the war with Russia from all over the world:
'We will restart our IAAD program as soon as possible to raise money from around the world to purchase a large number of air defense systems for Ukraine.'
'First and foremost, we must contain Russia' - Finnish Foreign Minister Valtonen urges Trump not to rush into Ukraine peace talks
'I think President Trump is absolutely right that he wants to bring peace to Ukraine. But I think, first and foremost, our goal should be to deter Russia. Because if we can deter Russia… [What does that mean?] That means we can really take care of our own defense and deterrence within the alliance, and help Ukraine, because Russia only understands force.'
The Trump administration understands that Russia will never, under any circumstances, give Zelensky its new regions and its people' – Lavrov.
'In the US, unlike Europe and Great Britain, there is a desire to delve into the essence of the problem and the root causes of the conflict in Ukraine. Americans understand that Zelensky's demand to return the 1991 borders is impossible. At least because these territories are inhabited by people whom Zelensky calls 'creatures' and advised them to get lost in Russia. And now in one interview he said that he is driven by hatred of Russians. Can anyone hypothetically think about handing these people over to such a person? No way and never. This understanding is also shared by the Trump administration, which said that Zelensky would have to come to terms with the territorial issue'
Gold new record high USD 3,244.1499/oz
Treasury Yields this morning—
• 10-Year: Largest weekly increase since 2001
• 30-year: Largest weekly increase since 1982
The 10-Year yield on treasuries is important as car loans and mortgages in the US are based on these rates. These rates 10 years ago were about 2%.
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Russian Ministry of Defense:
The Kiev regime continued unilateral attacks on the Russian energy infrastructure in violation of the Russian-US agreements on the cessation of strikes on energy facilities from March 18 for 30 days.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU carried out five attacks on Russian energy facilities.
In the Bryansk region:
On April 11 at 05.09, as a result of the AFU's deliberate shelling of the Khvoshchevskaya power facility of Bryanskenergo, a branch of PJSC Rosseti Center - Bryanskenergo, a high-voltage line was disconnected due to a wire break in a span of supports.
In the Kursk region:
On April 10 at 09.00, as a result of the AFU's deliberate shelling of the Mokrushino power facility of the Kurskenergo branch of PJSC Rosseti Center - Kurskenergo, a 10 kV high-voltage line was disconnected due to the destruction of a complete transformer substation. Household consumers in the Belovsky district were left without power supply.
In the Lugansk People's Republic:
On April 10 at 11:43 a.m., as a result of deliberate shelling by the AFU, the building of the Troitskiy section of the Svatovskiy RPS was damaged and the building of the warehouse of the LNR State Unitary Enterprise "Republican Grid Company" in the settlement of Troitskoye was destroyed. The leading engineer of the enterprise received shrapnel wounds.
In Zaporozhye region:
On April 10 at 23.55, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian attack UAV on the 35 kV Pologi electric substation of the Tavria-Energo State Unitary Enterprise, a transformer was knocked out of service. About 7,250 people in six settlements were left without power supply.
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Military flights to Rzeszow in Poland over the past three days again raise questions about the rhetoric about “reducing aid” and “depleting resources”:
— CFC2999 (Canada)
— GAF158 (Germany)
— K4472 (Charleston Air Force Base, USA)
— K4455 (Wright-Patterson AFB, USA)
— MMZ623P (Brize Norton, UK)
The supply line through Rzeszow, Poland, continues to operate without interruption. The Canadians, Americans, British and Germans ensure the flow of logistics as if no "reduction" had occurred.
It is not yet known what exactly is being transported to Ukraine so urgently and in such large quantities, but no one would bother with logistics for the sake of ordinary armored personnel carriers.
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'On 27 November 2024, TCC officers took me in Vinnitsa. Before that, I tried to escape the mobilisation. I sent my family away, to my mother-in-law. I was taken by almost five people, I was alone. People always fight with TCC officers, even bypassers do. People are going to punish TCC officers.'
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Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow and Kiev maintain contacts through embassies in Belarus
Despite the fact that Ukraine has completely severed diplomatic relations with Russia, Moscow and Kiev are conducting a memo correspondence on consular and legal issues through their embassies in Belarus. This was reported by Alexey Polischuk, director of the second department of the CIS countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
In a comment to RIA Novosti, Polischuk emphasized that Moscow is open to discussing serious proposals with Kiev, within the framework of which modern realities will be taken into account and steps will be considered that will lead to the elimination of the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis.
At the same time, the diplomat notes that the Kiev regime, by its behavior, demonstrates a clear unpreparedness for these steps. Polischuk recalled that Kiev withdrew from direct negotiations with Moscow, which continued until mid-April 2022. In addition, in September of the same year, Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky issued a decree banning negotiations with Russia, which is still in effect.
- Top War
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🇺🇦💉 Thousands of drug addicts and alcoholics join the Ukrainian Armed Forces and then desert
- The people who go to the Special Security Service (SOS) are mainly drug addicts and alcoholics, said Kiev City Council deputy and commander of the 429th Achilles unmanned systems regiment Yuriy Fedorenko.
- At the same time, he believes that some of military personnel going AWOL in the current war is not critical.
- Earlier it was reported that more than 100,000 Ukrainian troops have gone AWOL since the beginning of the war.
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'Coalition of the Willing' talks have failed'
- Kallas sums up
The latest "coalition" talks have failed to provide clarity on how the planned operation will work.
➖"No. Different member states have different opinions and discussions are still ongoing," Kallas responded to a question about the planned actions.
▪️About 200 military planners from 30 countries have been working on a strategy to protect Ukraine's skies and seas and provide support on the ground, but have not reached agreement on mission details.
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I'm normally not a big fan, but this is an absolutely brilliant answer by Larry Summers to the oft-repeated argument that China is somehow "cheating" in trade.
In fact it's probably the best answer I've ever heard on this.
It goes back to the point I was making in reply to Steve Miran's completely insane argument that having the dollar as a reserve currency is such a burden to the US that other countries need to compensate them for it.
Thanks to the dollar reserve status, to quote Summers's rhetorical question: "If China wants to sell us things at really low prices and the transaction is we get solar collectors or we get batteries that we can put in electric cars and we send them pieces of paper that we print. Do you think that's a good deal for us or a bad deal for us?"
Characterizing this as "cheating", like Summers rightly says, should be rejected entirely. At the end of the day, who's more "cheated": the party doing the hard work of producing goods at very low prices on razor thin margins, or the party that simply prints a virtually infinite amount of fiat money to pay for all this stuff?
🇨🇳❌🇾🇪💸 The Last Tariff: How China Ended the Empire’s Trade War With a Whisper
It happened with no fanfare. No saber-rattling. No choreographed press conference.
Just one quiet statement from Beijing’s Customs Tariff Commission:
“Tariffs on U.S. goods will rise to 125% — and this will be our final adjustment. Regardless of future U.S. actions, China will no longer respond.”
In Washington, they saw a concession. In reality? Beijing walked away from the last imperial leverage DC had left.
In Trump's chaotic circus, tariffs are sold as economic patriotism, blunt-force trauma marketed as “tough negotiation.” But tariffs are the last resort of a hollowed-out empire that no longer produces, competes, or innovates, only thinks it can still dictate.
Trump’s latest move, slapping a 125% tariff on Chinese goods, was meant to flex dominance. Beijing waited, matched it perfectly, then froze the board.
“There is no possibility of market acceptance of U.S. goods in China.”
Translation: “We don’t need you anymore.” No further hikes are necessary. The U.S. is de facto cut off from the colossal Chinese market.
That’s not de-escalation. That’s de-dollarization in practice. Geoeconomic aikido, using the empire’s aggression to accelerate the break from it.
❗️Washington still believes in a world that no longer exists. It thinks it can dictate trade terms while running trillion-dollar deficits, threaten its way into solvency while its factories rust, and that China will forever tolerate economic warfare just to retain access to Walmart shelves and U.S. Treasury bonds, bonds that are a ticking time bomb for the hollowed empire.
But that world is gone. China has reoriented trade through Belt & Road. It’s fortified currency alliances with BRICS+, hardened internal markets, and invested across the Global South. Most importantly, it has shifted away from Western export dependency.
So when Beijing says, “we will ignore further U.S. tariff moves,” it’s not a concession. It’s sovereignty. The U.S. has already been priced out, there’s no need for more theatrics.
This is the reckoning of a rentier empire built on financial parasitism, not production.
America doesn’t have the tools to win a trade war, it doesn’t make the tools anymore. Wall Street eviscerated its industrial base. Labor was deskilled by decades of outsourcing. Infrastructure crumbled while $10 trillion burned in forever wars.
Trump’s 125% tariff isn’t policy, it’s a symptom. An empire in late stage declined.
The power of Beijing’s response isn’t the tariff, it’s the refusal to respond again. No escalation. No panic. Just a clean break from a failing system.
A message to the Global South: “We won’t be dragged into Washington’s chaos. We won’t fight over a burning house. We’ll build new ones.”
It’s multipolar maturity. Let the U.S. isolate itself, tariff its own supply chains, and raise rates until its middle class fractures.
Beijing will trade in yuan with the Global Majority, while America tariffs itself into irrelevance.
Markets have lost nearly $6 trillion net since February, despite brief rebounds. Wall Street knows: this isn’t 2001. China isn’t cowering. It now holds the keys to rare earths, battery tech, and semiconductors.
Trump framed the tariffs as punishment for “ripping off the USA.” But who really gutted America’s industries? China? Or Goldman Sachs? Who looted pensions, turned homes into hedge fund fodder, and spent trillions on wars that only enriched Raytheon and BlackRock?
The real theft wasn’t done in Beijing.
It was done in boardrooms, think tanks, and Senate halls under the banner of “free markets” and “security.”
This moment isn’t the climax of a trade war. It’s the end of illusion, that the U.S. can sanction, tariff, and bully its way to eternal dominance.
Beijing just called time.
125% is the ceiling. From here forward, they won’t play the empire’s game.
They’re building a new one, with bricks, not bombs. With real trade, not tribute. With allies who don’t need threats to stay loyal.
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💥💥💥Footage of the destruction of a Ukrainian UAV control point by FPV drone operators of the 132nd separate motorized rifle brigade of the "Yug" group in the area of the settlement of Dyleevka.
4 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen were destroyed, as well as a ground control station for a UAV.
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🇷🇺⚔🇺🇦 Russian Army Liberated Kalinovo
- Russian troops have recently stepped up offensive operations in the Ocheretinsky area (between Pokrovsk and Toretsk in the DPR).
- A few days ago, advancing from Arkhangelskoye, our units broke into the village of Kalinovo and bought battles in the building.
- Now the village has been taken and cleared of Ukrainian occupiers.
- Ukrainian military analysts (including DeepState) also confirm the loss of Kalinovo.
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Pistorius told what Germany will arm Ukraine with in 2025
'Germany has allocated around 4 billion euros in aid to Ukraine for 2025. The Bundestag recently approved another 3 billion for this year and 8 billion until 2029. This is a very significant amount. Today I can also clarify what exactly these funds will be used for. We are talking about the delivery of another 4 IRIS-T systems and 300 long-range missiles. Also provided will be 120 man-portable air defense systems, 300 reconnaissance drones, 25 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, 15 Leopard tanks, 14 artillery systems, 100 ground surveillance radars and an additional 100,000 artillery rounds. We have also managed to allocate another 30 Patriot missiles from our own stockpiles for the systems already transferred to Ukraine'
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'Today we are again discussing what more we can do to help Ukraine. Last year we supported Ukraine with 20 billion. This year member states have already committed more than 23 billion. But we need to do even more'
🇨🇳🇺🇸 China Crashed Trump's Dream: Newest F-47 Fighters Cannot Be Created Due to Beijing's Restrictions — Newsweek
- To create them, rare earth materials are needed, on the export of which China has imposed restrictions in response to Trump's tariffs.
- Trump has already managed to name F-47 fighter jets in his honor - he is the 47th President of the United States.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 Russia sees US desire to resolve conflict in Ukraine, unlike Europe — Lavrov
- The Trump administration understands Zelensky's hatred of Russians and that he will have to accept territorial losses.
- Lavrov advised to endure Kaja Kallas as head of European diplomacy.
- CIS partners were informed about the progress of Russian-American contacts on Ukraine.
- Russia expects that all leaders of the CIS countries will take part in the parade on May 9 to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory.
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