🏳️🇷🇺 On the 1 Year anniversary of #Biden's disastrous #withdrawal from #Afghanistan, the #Taliban have expressed great interest in buying more than 1,000,000 barrels of #oil from #Russia for the needs of the economy of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The Taliban are also interested in the acquisition of Russian gas and other aspects of energy cooperation.
🇺🇲🇫🇷 Journalists overheard the conversation between #Biden and #Macron at the G7 summit
Macron told Biden that Saudi Arabia and the #UAE do not have enough oil capacity to replace #Russian #oil:
“I had a conversation with MbZ (Mohammed bin Zayed). He told me two things. That he is at the maximum, at the maximum of production capacity. This is what he claims. And then he said that the Saudis could increase production by 150,000 barrels a day. Maybe a little more, but they won't have additional capacity until six months from now."
🇷🇺🇪🇺❗Russian Foreign Ministry: The sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions will have a self-destructive effect on the EU
The department noted that Moscow will adequately withstand the consequences of unilateral restrictive measures by the EU and remain a reliable trading partner in the international arena.
The decisions of the EU authorities on the partial rejection of Russian #oil and oil products are expected to provoke a further increase in prices for ordinary Europeans, destabilize the #EU energy markets and disrupt supply chains.
The EU is purposefully pushing #Kyiv ever closer to the brink by backing its militant ambitions with vague promises of integration, the Russian Foreign Ministry added.
🇪🇺❗At the next summit in late May, the #EU will not be able to agree on an embargo on imports of #Russian #oil - the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen
According to her, this is not an issue that should be resolved in the European Council.
“We are working hard on this (imbargo negotiation) right now, it is a matter of weeks, but we really need to find a solution for investment needs. We need to adapt it in such a way that we do not have a situation where Putin does not sell oil to us, but sells at a higher price in the world market," she stressed.
🇷🇺🇺🇦❗The Russian army launched an assault on the village of Kamyshevakha, Popasnyansky district of the LPR
The suburbs and the first streets from the northeast direction have already been liberated
🇺🇦❗Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny reported to Zelensky about the beginning of street fighting in the next few days in Severodonetsk and asked the president to give the green light to the withdrawal of troops from the city so as not to repeat the fate of Azovstal.
🇨🇳🇷🇺 China plans to replenish its strategic reserves with Russian oil.
While European countries are discussing an embargo on oil from Russia, China is strengthening energy ties with Moscow, writes Bloomberg.
The publication notes that the EU's refusal of Russian oil has given China the opportunity to replenish its huge strategic reserves, which are usually used during emergencies or sudden disruptions.
