Putin hotar med nationalisering. När det väl har börjat gå utför kan det rasa snabbt. De neutrala indierna är måttligt imponerade av mästerstrategen:Bloomberg skrev:Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Friday laying out new rules for tightening control of companies that fail to fulfill defense contracts in the event martial law is imposed, the latest step in the Kremlin’s preparations for militarizing the economy as its invasion of Ukraine stretches into a second year.
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The Kremlin has imposed martial law in the regions of Ukraine its forces currently occupy, except Crimea. Officials have said there are no plans at present to enact it more widely despite periodic calls over the last year to do so.
Vem ska Putin lita på om inte de neutrala indierna?Oliver Carroll skrev:These days, Russian FM Lavrov doesn’t usually go anywhere near hostile crowds. He underestimated this Indian audience.
Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. Clash Over Oil, Yemen as Rift Grows
Snart kan Ryssland till och med förlora det implicita stödet från oljekartellen Opec!WSJ skrev:Still formally allies, Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. have diverged on several fronts, competing for foreign investment and influence in global oil markets and clashing on the direction of the Yemen war. The disagreements once unfolded behind closed doors but are increasingly spilling out into the open, threatening to reorder alliances in the energy-rich Persian Gulf at a time when Iran is trying to exert more sway across the region and Russia’s war in Ukraine has raised crude prices and roiled OPEC decision-making.
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The Emiratis clashed with the Saudis last October when OPEC+—a 13-nation group that includes OPEC and 10 other countries, including Russia—decided to dramatically reduce oil production to prop up crude prices.
In public, the U.A.E. supported the production cut. But U.S. officials said the Emiratis told them privately that they wanted to pump more, in line with Washington’s wishes, but faced resistance from Saudi Arabia. Since then, the U.A.E. has privately pushed OPEC+ to let it produce more, Gulf energy officials said.
Russian warplane crashes in occupied Donetsk region
Det har varit ganska många fall av vådabeskjutning i detta krig, men tydligen inte denna gång.Militarnyi skrev:A Russian warplane had crashed in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region.
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At first, the cause of the warplane crash was unknown. Russian propaganda media assumed that the warplane had been shot down with a “friendly” anti-aircraft fire of the invasion forces.
Later, the press service of the Air Force of Ukraine reported that it was Ukrainian soldiers who had shot down an enemy Su-34.
Video Shows Drone Landing On Russian A-50 Radar Jet That Was Supposedly Attacked
Kommer denna incident att begränsa Rysslands vilja att använda AWACS framöver?The War Zone skrev:A video has emerged showing a drone that is claimed to have been launched by a Belarusian partisan group, landing on the radar dome of a Russian A-50 Mainstay airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft at Machulishchy Air Base, Belarus. The video was released by BYPOL, the organization of Belarusian military dissidents opposed to the Lukashenko government that claims it struck the A-50, damaging it in two critical places — its radome and its upper forward fuselage area — on February 26. BYPOL says this video was taken during a period of “two weeks [when] Belarusian partisans conducted aerial reconnaissance at Machulishchy military airfield with the help of civilian drones purchased in a store.”