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Russia and North Korea only nations to not face US tariffs, while goods from Ukraine will face new 10% levy
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The White House<\/a> has defended its decision to not include Russia<\/a> on its expansive list of countries that will face major new tariffs starting today.
US sanctions on Moscow already \u201cpreclude any meaningful trade\u201d, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Axios on Wednesday. At the same time, war-hit Ukraine<\/a> is facing 10 per cent tariffs from the US administration. <\/a>
It comes as Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u2019s top negotiator, Kirill Dmitriev, held meetings in Washington<\/a> with US officials. After arrival, the Kyiv-born and US-educated envoy said that unnamed forces were trying to stir tension between Washington and Moscow
Meanwhile, Russian military bloggers have claimed that hundreds of Ukrainian troops have sought shelter from Moscow\u2019s advancing forces in a Kursk monastery.
Moscow\u2019s troops continue to wage fierce battles in the western Kursk region against Ukrainian forces, in a push to rout them from Kyiv’s last major foothold in the Russian territory seized last August.
Mash, a Telegram channel close to Russia’s security services, said more than 300 soldiers were hunkering down in the Gornalsky St. Nicholas Belogorsky monastery, as Kyiv looks to organise its defence on the highlands around Gornal.<\/a><\/a><\/a>
Rebekah Koffler, a former DIA intelligence officer who specializes in Russia\u2019s war strategy, told Fox News that Putin\u2019s goal with his latest conscription drive is to prolong the war.
“There\u2019s no ceasefire and no peace plan between Russia and Ukraine to be had,” said Koffler, the author of a best-selling book “Putin\u2019s Playbook<\/u><\/a>.”
“What President Trump seeks is regretfully, unachievable. Putin’s goal is to keep fighting, in order to compel Ukraine to capitulate.
“Now that Germany and France are considering to deploy reassurance forces into Ukraine, Putin is factoring in those numbers, so he is increasing his force’s posture, to deter such a deployment or failing to prevent it by force.”
Russia has placed Elton John\u2019s charity focussing on HIV\/AIDS prevention on its list of \u201cundesirable organisations\u201d, the prosecutor general\u2019s office said on Thursday.
The office derided what it described as the charity\u2019s \u201cpromotion of non-traditional sexual relations\u201d.
The Elton John AIDS Foundation, launched in 1992, works in over 90 countries “to increase access to health care, tackle LGBTQ+ stigma, and end AIDS\u201d.
The foundation, established by the singer and songwriter, has previously clashed with Russian authorities over LGBTQ+ rights. Sir Elton<\/a>, who has performed in Russia, has criticised what he views as discrimination against gay people by the Russian government.
In the statement by Russian prosecutors, they said the charity is “focused on the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations, Western family models, and gender reassignment.”
Hundreds of Ukrainian troops have sought shelter in a monastery in Kursk, a Russian Telegram channel has claimed.
Moscow\u2019s troops continue to wage fierce battles in the western Kursk region against Ukrainian forces, in a push to rout them from Kyiv’s last major foothold in the Russian territory seized last August, war bloggers have said.
Kyiv now just holds a narrow sliver of Kursk, Ukrainian battlefield map DeepState shows.
Mash, a Telegram channel close to Russia’s security services, said more than 300 soldiers were hunkering down in the Gornalsky St. Nicholas Belogorsky monastery, as Kyiv looks to organise its defence on the highlands around Gornal.
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine and Reuters could not independently verify the reports. The monastery’s Telegram channel made no mention of military operations in the area.
Mash said there was an underground passage beneath the monastery “through which the Ukrainian Armed Forces are evacuating and delivering ammunition for long-term defence.”
The SHOT Telegram channel also said Ukraine was pulling reserves into Gornal via the monastery’s passageway.
Roman Alekhin, whose Telegram channel has over 180,000 subscribers, said Ukraine will try to hold onto the high ground around Gornal “with all their might, regardless of losses.”
Ukraine has denied Russian accusations of attacks on energy infrastructure, describing Moscow\u2019s claims as false.
Russia\u2019s defence ministry earlier. accused Ukraine of attacking Russian energy facilities four times in the past 24 hours despite a US-brokered halt on striking each other\u2019s energy infrastructure.
But Kyiv said it\u2019s troops have adhered to the ceasefire, accusing the Russian army of breaching it itself.
“At the same time, numerous violations of the agreements by the Russian army have been recorded,” Ukraine\u2019s general staff said on Telegram.
Poland wants to spend five per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence in 2026, defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Thursday.
Spurred on by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, Poland now spends a higher proportion of GDP on defence than any other Nato member, including the US. It plans to hit 4.7 per cent GDP of spending this year.
During the Nato summit, ministers discussed a \u2018White Paper for European Defence Readiness 2030\u2019, aimed at outlining a new defence strategy, and providing a framework for the European rearming surge.
“All ministers… emphasized the importance of this document, the White Paper,” Mr Kosiniak-Kamysz told reporters.
“We must be ready for the most difficult scenarios and we must be strong enough to prevent war from breaking out… This is an action to make us so strong that it would not be profitable for any country to attack the European Union or NATO.”
Vladimir Putin\u2019s international envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who is currently visiting Washington, has said dialogue between Russia and the US is \u201cessential\u201d for global peace.
\u201cHolding key Russia-US meetings in Washington, D.C. on April 2\u20133,\u201d Mr Dmitriev wrote on X.
\u201cOpen, productive dialogue between Russia and the U.S. isn\u2019t optional \u2014 it\u2019s essential. Global stability and peace depend on it,\u201d he added.
The Czech-led drive to supply Ukraine with artillery ammunition will be continue being financed until earliest September, the country\u2019s foreign minister has said.
Speaking on Thursday before a Nato meeting, Jan Lipavsky told Czech TV that the initiative had received new financing from Canada, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands.
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