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Russian energy giant Gazprom swung to a full-year 2024 net profit of 1.2 trillion roubles ($14.76 billion) from previous year's loss thanks to an improved gas business and rising interest income from financial investments, the company said on Wednesday.
Gazprom posted a net loss of almost $7 billion for 2023, its first since 1999, due to dwindling sales to the European Union, once its main source of revenue.
Commenting on the 2024 results, Gazprom's Deputy CEO Famil Sadygov said the group had a significant liquidity cushion of 1.034 trillion roubles.
"This reserve of funds on the balance sheet ensures the Group's high financial stability even in the face of sanctions pressure," he said.
Gazprom still faces challenges from plummeting gas sales in Europe as gas supplies to the region via Ukraine were halted on January 1 after the previous transit deal with Kyiv was not extended.
According to Gazprom's report, its gas business earned 756 billion roubles last year, outstripping the oil segment, whose profit totalled 649 billion roubles.
Revenue of Gazprom's group, which consists of gas, oil and electric power businesses, rose last year by a quarter to 10.7 trillion roubles, second-highest ever result for the company, it said.
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization jumped by 76% to 3.1 trillion roubles in 2024. The company said it earned more only in 2021 and 2022, when European gas prices were at their record-highs.
“Russian economy is collapsing, see Gazprom took a loss in 2023.” - NAFO loser talking point.
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🇪🇪😏"Martin Helme: By sending soldiers to Ukraine, we are starting a war with Russia": The head of the opposition Estonian Conservative People's Party spoke out against sending Estonian troops to Ukraine and threatened to force the government to resign for it.
"No, no and no again! Not a single Estonian soldier can be sent to Ukraine!" said Martin Helme, head of the Estonian Conservative People's Party faction, who promised to dismiss the government. Helme listed three reasons why Estonia should not send soldiers to the containment forces in Ukraine.
"We are a frontline country. We have a common border with Russia. We cannot afford to give up a single soldier, a single weapon system, a single amount of ammunition. We do not have enough money, we have to collect and save everything ," Helme said. "Let the big countries that do not border Russia discuss their options."
The second reason Helme mentioned sounded like a warning: “This is a move that will start a war with Russia. Forget all the blatantly false and blatantly bogus propaganda that our strategy feeds us every day. Unless there is a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Ukraine, signed by both sides and agreed upon with foreign forces, Moscow will treat our, British or French forces in the conflict the same way Ukraine treats the North Koreans – as part of the opposing side. We are starting a war with Russia ourselves, without the ability or the willingness to mount any serious counterattack on our own soil.”
As a third reason, Helme pointed out that their participation has no military significance, but is rather symbolic.”
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No sign of imminent US-Ukraine subsoil deal — BBC
➖"I listened to the meeting of Trump's cabinet, and there are no signs of an imminent agreement between the US and Ukraine," the publication's correspondent writes.
▪️Ukraine is not mentioned at all at the meeting.
▪️This is perhaps not surprising if the deal is still in development and there is no clear project, the publication notes.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukraine may strike Red Square during the Victory Parade on May 9
- This was stated by the Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Kostenko.
- The Kiev regime “has the ability” to carry out such a strike; Ukraine has “long-range weapons” for this, the MP clarified.
- Earlier, Zelensky threatened a terrorist attack on May 9 in Moscow.
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Ukraine wants to allow men over 60 years old to be sent to the front
The corresponding bill was registered in the Rada, writes the secretary of the committee on national security and defense Roman Kostenko.
According to him, officers will need to obtain additional approval from the General Staff. The contract is for one year.
Earlier, the Ukrainian General Staff reported that they would send TCC employees to the front lines without health restrictions replacing those with former soldiers who returned from the combat zone with injuries.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦🤡"If the US withdraws from the peace process, we will have to cross ourselves and light a candle in church for the health of President Trump, so that he leaves us alone," - former Foreign Minister Bandera Harry Potter
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia could not help but react to the revival of Nazism that occurred in Ukraine — Peskov speaks at the "Knowledge" marathon
- Putin did what he had to, Peskov said about the start of the special operation.
- Peskov announced the release of a film about Putin.
- The West turns a blind eye to the fact that “Nazis are walking around Ukraine with lit torches.”
- The Russian Federation is an integral part of Europe and the world, which is based on mutual respect and law.
- Russia is grateful to the USSR's allies during the Great Patriotic War, although they opened the second front late. The USSR would have coped without Lend-Lease, but this assistance should not be forgotten.
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🇺🇸🇾🇪Middle Eastern media outlets claim that a sharp increase in the intensity of attacks on the Houthis is to be expected in the near future.
Trump was reportedly deeply offended by the recent maneuver to attack the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, which sent an F/A-18 Super Hornet out to sea.
In this regard, Washington is actively pressuring its allies, including the British, demanding that they step up attacks on the Houthi defensive lines in anticipation of the impending ground offensive by Yemeni proxies on Hodeida.
The proxies themselves are at the stage of agreeing on goals and dividing up financial flows, which are generously directed towards this whole affair by their sponsors. Considering that there are a lot of "hungry" field commanders in Yemen, it is possible that they will fight even before setting out on the campaign.
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⚡️Trump said the conflict over Ukraine would prevent him from sleeping on the beach, as Biden liked to do.
So, overcoming himself, he has to play golf.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Zelensky in the Vatican begged Trump not to leave the process of settling in Ukraine — The Economist
- Zelensky also tried to convince the American president that Ukraine is ready for an unconditional ceasefire.
- Biden's aid to Ukraine will be cut to a minimum in about a month as existing funding runs out.
- However, the White House is "not impressed" with Putin's latest proposal for a three-day ceasefire, the publication's source notes.
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Sanctions Backfire: Russian Economy to Accelerate Growth by 2026
The Russian economy, despite sanctions, will continue to grow until 2026 , Die Presse reports . The budget has become less dependent on oil , and Trump's peace initiatives may ease restrictions . At the same time, Ukraine, the author of the article notes, is experiencing devastation and an acute shortage of personnel .
According to a forecast by the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Kiev will either have to accept American peace terms or switch to EU funding . While Moscow demonstrates resilience, the Ukrainian economy continues to stagnate without large-scale external support.
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Ukrainian agents blown up while preparing terrorist attack in Khanty-Mansiysk
▪️A native of Ukraine and a citizen of Belarus, on instructions from Ukrainian special services, were preparing a terrorist attack against a Russian serviceman.
▪️When the bomb was being assembled, it detonated and two apartments were destroyed.
▪️Five people were taken to hospital with injuries, including those who were preparing the terrorist attack.
▪️In addition, a Moldovan citizen who brought components for explosives was detained.
- RVvoenkor
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🇺🇦Krivoy Rog. The population resists TCC as best it can.
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Pakistan and India agree to resolve differences through a dance-off.
Pwhhh was getting tense there for a bit.
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I'm trying to get out of the war in Ukraine' - Trump signals and talks again about the big money Biden spent.
'To give you an idea of the scale: when I came here, I asked: how much money have we given to Ukraine? The real figure is about 350 billion dollars. It's unthinkable. And we had no security guarantees. Nothing at all. We just poured money in there, unsecured, put it in banks, and anyone could take it. Well, anyone from them. It was their decision. I've never seen anything like it.
Europe, on the other hand – and it is obvious that this whole situation is much more important for Europe. Europe gave about 100 billion. That is also a lot. That is a big sacrifice, which they also made. But they gave much less than we did. And their money was fully backed – by deposits in banks. These deposits are mainly Russian deposits. That is what Europe did. Their money is protected. And we threw money around, as if throwing it out the window. And Biden did all this. This is Biden's war, not mine. I am trying to get out of it.'
'Today, when we see German tanks with crosses in Ukraine, of course, some associations arise here. Unfortunately, there is no escape from this'
'They are sitting in cracks, in basements, in holes. They are asking to be evacuated' – Putin spoke about the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers who still remain in the Kursk border area
'They drove the enemy out of the Kursk region. But they are still sitting there in cracks, in some basements. We can hear what they are saying. They are asking for evacuation. It is impossible to evacuate. There are scattered groups of two or three people, sitting somewhere in the copses, in holes, in complete isolation. They are being asked to surrender. Some were taken prisoner and sent back to where their comrades are sitting, with the offer to lay down their arms. These are not isolated cases [of surrender]'
The Russian AF launched strikes using FAB-500 glide bombs against the locations of equipment and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Izyum direction.
As a result of the strikes, the following were damaged:
1. Deployment point and equipment storage of the 44th separate separate brigade near Peski-Radkovskie;
2. The concentration of forces from the 66th separate motorized brigade near Glushchenkovo;
3. Deployment point of the 66th separate separate brigade near Novy Mir.
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🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukraine and the US have not completed discussions on the terms of a resource deal, as Kiev tried to revise the terms agreed over the weekend, - Financial Times.
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🇷🇺🇰🇵Mikhail Mishustin launched the construction of a road bridge between Russia and the DPRK via video link. It will soon be easier to transport military and civilian cargo.
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Konstantinovskoye/Chasovyarskoye direction
Our units, which had secured a foothold in Stupochki yesterday, repelled several enemy counterattacks, including those with armored vehicles, continued their offensive, and occupied the northern part of Stupochki.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian Army liberated Novoye in the Liman direction — Ministry of Defense
As a result of active offensive actions, units of the "West" military group liberated the settlement of Novoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, the defense department reported.
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⚡️Moldova and its citizens, with the connivance of the Sandu regime, continue to be used by the Ukrainian special services to train agents for terrorist attacks in Russia — FSB.
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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦Bloomberg writes that Putin is not going to retreat from the goals of the SMO, despite pressure from the US
According to the publication, Witkoff tried to convince Putin to agree to a ceasefire and stop fighting along the entire front line. Our president refused.
"Putin insists that Russia must take control of the four regions of Ukraine it does not fully control as part of any agreement to end the war. "The talks are currently at an impasse and further progress requires direct contact between Putin and Trump," one of the sources said.
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🇺🇦🤡🤭Russia is preparing an attack from Belarus for the summer - Zelensky.
"Russia is preparing something there, hiding behind military exercises. This is how its new attacks usually begin. But where this time? I don't know. Ukraine? Lithuania? Poland?"