“Spending fatigue” has set in on both sides of the Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal reported, as shoppers in the U.K. spent 2.3 percent less in April than in March, the National Bureau for Statistics reported.
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CHINA REJECTS U.K.’S ESCALATORY CLAIM THAT IT HAS PROVIDED RUSSIA WITH ‘LETHAL AID’ AMID UKRAINE WAR
Wang Wenbin, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, accused the U.K. and the collective West of being the biggest impediment to peace negotiations in Ukraine because of their constant stream of lethal aid to keep the fight going.
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ZELENSKY: UKRAINE’S DISASTER IS ‘THE WORLD’S FAULT’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky blamed “the world” for his country’s inability to defeat Russia and recent losses in the north—while explaining that billions sent by the U.S. to Ukraine generally end up in U.S. factories, creating American jobs.
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NULAND WANTS U.S. TO HELP UKRAINE HIT TARGETS DEEP INSIDE RUSSIA
Victoria Nuland, the former under-secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department, said in an interview Sunday that the U.S. needs to permit Ukraine to strike Russian territory with weapons provided by Washington.
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RUSSIA SEIZES ASSETS OF JPMORGAN, COMMERZBANK
On 7 May, a Russian court allowed the seizure of €12.4 million, or about $13.3 million, remaining in Russia and belonging to a partnership of JPMorgan and Commerzbank.
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NATO HEAD: NOT TOO LATE FOR UKRAINE TO WIN
Jens Stoltenberg, the head of NATO, said last week that despite challenges Ukraine can still pull out a victory over Russia because “more support is on the way.”
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IS IT GAME, SET, MATCH TO MOSCOW?
It is an axiom of warfare that it is always desirable to have friendly territory beyond one’s own borders or the capacity to prevent the buildup of significant military power in neutral territory for an attack against one’s own territory.
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RUSSIA TARGETING WESTERN ARMS DEPOTS
Russia announced last week that it will take a new focus on Western arms depots located in Ukraine to destroy new weaponry provided to Kyiv as Moscow downplayed the effectiveness of the weapons that have been provided.
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WWIII: RUSSIA WARNS THAT WESTERN MILITARY SUPPORT HAS WORLD ON BRINK OF CATASTROPHE
Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov said in an interview Monday that the U.S. and NATO’s obsession with the idea of handing Moscow a “strategic defeat” in Ukraine has the world on the brink of a major catastrophe.
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TOUGHER SANCTIONS, DRONE ATTACKS SLAM RUSSIAN OIL EXPORTS
Russia has relied on its oil exports to prop up its consumer economy and fund its war in Ukraine.