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Foreign AffairsRe: US/EU To Announce New Energy Partnership Tomorrow. Cutting Off Russian Gas. by Igbofam(op): 9:32pm On Mar 24, 2022
US are masters at this game grin

Russia has been trying to hold the entire Europe to ransom because of their gas supply to them. Well US is stepping in and poised to take over and effectively cut Russia off.

Masterstroke by Biden cheesy

This will be that proverbial final nail in the coffin of LiLiPutin
grin
Foreign AffairsUS/EU To Announce New Energy Partnership Tomorrow. Cutting Off Russian Gas. by Igbofam(op): 9:31pm On Mar 24, 2022
President Biden and European leaders are expected to announce a plan on Friday for Europe to receive liquified natural gas (LNG) shipments in an effort to reduce reliance on Russia for energy, three U.S. officials familiar with the plan told The Washington Post.

The announcement is expected before Biden leaves for Poland, where he will travel to after meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on Friday, the newspaper reported. The paper noted that the details have not been finalized.

The president is also expected to announce a new round of sanctions against Russia while he is in Brussels. Two people familiar with the matter told the newspaper that the sanctions would target the country's defense companies and subsidiaries, members of its parliament and other sectors.

The White House announced on Thursday that the U.S. and its allies would be sanctioning 328 Duma members in addition to sanctioning the Duma itself, 17 board members from the Russian financial institution Sovcombank, 48 Russian state-owned defense enterprises and several others.




A State Department spokesperson referred The Hill to the Department of Energy regarding the expected Friday announcement and pointed to several statements made by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen regarding the sanctions announcement.

"With our partners and allies, the United States aims to strike the heart of Russia's ability to engage in warfare and carry out aggression against other countries, including Ukraine," Blinken said in a statement.

"We will continue to impose costs until Putin ends this unprovoked war against Ukraine. We call on those closest to Putin to cease and publicly condemn this cold-blooded war, which has caused the unconscionable death of hundreds of civilians, including children, and the largest humanitarian catastrophe in Europe since the Second World War."

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Wednesday noted there was an expected announcement coming regarding reducing Europe's energy reliance on Russian natural gas.

"A major priority for both the president and his European allies is to reduce the dependence of Europe on Russian gas. Full stop," Sullivan told reporters.

"And the practical roadmap for how to do that - what steps have to be taken, what the United States can contribute, what Europe has to do itself - this has been the subject of intense back-and-forth over the course of the past few days and weeks," he continued. "And we will have more to say on this subject specifically on Friday, particularly with the European Commission and the European Commission president, von der Leyen. So he'll discuss it tomorrow."



The development comes as the U.S. and European nations seek to further isolate Russia economically by hitting its energy sector.

The U.S. earlier this month announced it would ban Russian imports of natural gas, oil and coal.

The Hill has reached out to the Department of Energy and White House National Security Council for comment.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/administration/599541-biden-world-leaders-expected-to-announce-plan-to-ship-liquified%3famp

Mynd44 Lalasticlala Seun

Foreign AffairsRe: ukraine Reclaims Irpin. Launches Counter Attacks In Kherson & Kyiv by Igbofam(op): 9:11pm On Mar 24, 2022
Elvictor:
grin grin good, you completed it, and understood it, you save me the stress.
Correction "you SAVED me the stress"
Foreign AffairsRe: ukraine Reclaims Irpin. Launches Counter Attacks In Kherson & Kyiv by Igbofam(op): 8:37pm On Mar 24, 2022
Elvictor:
You don't get, do you? grin grin
Correction "you don't get IT, do you?"
Foreign AffairsRe: ukraine Reclaims Irpin. Launches Counter Attacks In Kherson & Kyiv by Igbofam(op): 8:33pm On Mar 24, 2022
Aromeh360:
Ukraine is the biggest country in eu after Russia, it doesn’t matter if they take back one small village
But it mattered so much to Russia when they first took it. Use your head
Foreign AffairsRe: ukraine Reclaims Irpin. Launches Counter Attacks In Kherson & Kyiv by Igbofam(op): 8:32pm On Mar 24, 2022
Elvictor:
What is live? cheesy grin
Live means in living colour as it is happening. I am sure you thought the right word to use was LIFE. Olodo!
Foreign AffairsRe: ukraine Reclaims Irpin. Launches Counter Attacks In Kherson & Kyiv by Igbofam(op): 8:28pm On Mar 24, 2022
AroleOduduwa2:
Maripul have been taken yet no one is reporting on that
It has not been taken. Ukraine still has full control despite the mass bombings by Russia.

Afterall have you forgotten that same Russia asked them to surrender just 2 days ago?

If they have taken it why would they be asking them to surrender?
NYSCRe: Poor State Of Corpers Lodge In Odi, Bayelsa State (Photos) by Igbofam:
Bayelsa = PDP

Bayelsa despite all the money it gets from the Federal government is still no better than one local government in Lagos

Development is Zero
Projects that are meant for the people Zero

Just look at NYSC camp looking like a place where pigs are reared. No scratch that....even Pigs get treated better than this.

This is madness
Foreign AffairsRe: NATO: Up To 40,000 Russian Troops Killed, Wounded, Captured Or MIA In Ukraine by Igbofam: 4:52pm On Mar 24, 2022
ken6488:
When Ukraine capture Moscow tell me
Why would Ukraine capture Moscow when they didn't attack Russia. You well so?
Foreign AffairsRe: ukraine Reclaims Irpin. Launches Counter Attacks In Kherson & Kyiv by Igbofam(op): 4:42pm On Mar 24, 2022
Elvictor:
Russia have not started attacking Kyiv, and the claim that Ukraine forces have started reclaiming the territory they lost to Russians is just wishful thinking, sit tight.
Read well. Kyiv has Suburbs. The article talks about the outskirts of Kyiv. Little rural communities. You think you know more than the US who can see everything going on in Ukraine right from Space using their satellites?

Ukraine has reclaimed Irpin and also their sea port at Berdyansk
PoliticsRe: Peter Obi Declares Intention To Contest For 2023 Presidential Election (Video) by Igbofam: 4:39pm On Mar 24, 2022
justified007:
This guy is not serious at all .


You dont just wake up one day and declare an intention to run for the office of the presidency of a country
And he somehow foolishly chose to make the announcement in Awka in front of the traditional rulers there as if he is aiming to be a solely Anambra President.
Foreign Affairsukraine Reclaims Irpin. Launches Counter Attacks In Kherson & Kyiv by Igbofam(op): 4:36pm On Mar 24, 2022
Ukrainian troops have reclaimed territory occupied by Russia as the nation’s troops seek to reverse momentum in the war, according to the US.

A US Department of Defense spokesperson told reporters on Wednesday that Ukraine is defending parts of the country “very smartly, very nimbly, very creatively”.

“We have seen indications that the Ukrainians are going a bit more on the offensive now,” they said. “We have seen them now in places, particularly in the south near Kherson, [where] they have tried to regain territory.”

The US official added that Ukrainian forces had been planning counter-attacks and were now “moving in that direction”.


“The Russians have not achieved any of the strategic objectives that they set out to — or certainly not without loss,” he said, adding that Ukrainian forces have successfully held off Russian attempts to seize the capital by closing in on Kyiv’s suburbs.

Ukraine’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that Russia had partially captured the towns of Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel on the outskirts of Kyiv.

However, Ukraine has now retaken 80 per cent of Irpin, according to the Ukrainian newspaper Kyiv Independent, while battles continue in Bucha and Hostomel.


Briton on Mariupol frontline says 'we still control this city, we are fighting day and night''


It follows reports that Russian forces targeted Kyiv’s suburbs with phosphorus bombs on Tuesday night as the Kremlin ramps up attempts to storm the capital.

Irpin Mayor Oleksandr Markushin said Russia launched white phosphorus bombs in Hostomel and Irpin, two small surbubs to the northwest of Kyiv with a combined population of less than 75,000. The use of such weapons against civilians is banned under the Geneva Conventions
https://inews.co.uk/news/ukraine-reclaims-russian-held-territories-as-troops-launch-counterattacks-in-kyiv-and-kherson-1535481

Foreign AffairsRe: NATO: Up To 40,000 Russian Troops Killed, Wounded, Captured Or MIA In Ukraine by Igbofam: 4:15pm On Mar 24, 2022
ken6488:
They are currently be sieging Kiev
They actually are not. They have been pushed back 30km further from Kyiv and have taken up DEFENSIVE positions. Which means Ukraine is on the offensive.

Oh and by the way Ukrainian forces just recaptured Irpin from Russia. So Indeed they are on the offensive
Foreign AffairsRe: NATO: Up To 40,000 Russian Troops Killed, Wounded, Captured Or MIA In Ukraine by Igbofam: 4:10pm On Mar 24, 2022
Toktee:
Why is russia army stagnated now instead of moving in to captured territories?
They are demoralized on all fronts. They went into Ukraine hoping to be welcomed with praises as their government assured them. Only to be met with the grim reaper
Foreign AffairsRe: The Bodies Of Russian Soldiers Are Piling Up In Ukraine by Igbofam: 2:16pm On Mar 24, 2022
Techsupport:
Oga most people on this forum cannot relate to what you are saying. they have no love for their home hence they dont understand why Ukraine wont just give theirs up. these guys are ready to sell everyone down river for a pot of beans. to them once they get what to eat, their history, culture, community can burn. so they wont understand.
They will never understand. Makes me wonder how truly dumb they must be. It's like the Vietnam war where a whole USA got dealt a massive bloody nose by the Vietnamese due to their knowledge of the terrain.

Russia can never win this.

Just last night 2 of their prize vessels who h was celebrated by their RT media and their government when it berthed in Ukrainian port of Berdyansk have been hit by Ukrainian fire. One destroyed, one seriously damaged and the other managed to sail away from the port.

3 vessels that each carries up to 20 tanks, 45 armored personnel carriers and 400 paratroopers. Russia is done for.

Foreign AffairsRe: The Bodies Of Russian Soldiers Are Piling Up In Ukraine by Igbofam: 1:57pm On Mar 24, 2022
Drenimarcus:
From cnn? And no major indication that these are Russian bodies. Smh.

Propaganda don’t win wars. Izyum mopped up, irpine and marinka mopped up. Slavutyuch just got mopped up. Get out of msm news and see things for yourself.
Ironically same Irpin you mentioned has got about 3000 Russian soldiers sorrounded by Ukrainian forces with their supply lines cut off. They are basically isolated and food for bullets.

What you fail to realize is that Russia can never win a war of this nature when people are fighting for their home which you want to take away.

Ukrainians have the upper hand based on their knowledge about their terrain. They will keep fighting smarter than the Russians whom so far have now resorted more to long range fighting using missiles rather than ground combat which even they know they are losing with the dead Soldiers being used as manure for the new season of sunflowers.
CrimeRe: Omotese Ebor Arrested At Sandton Church over N53m online romance scam by Igbofam: 8:34am On Mar 24, 2022
oshozondii:
https://www.news24.com/amp/news24/southafrica/news/alleged-online-love-scammer-arrested-at-sandton-church-20220322

(Omotese Ebor)

(Fortune Nomfusi)
Fortune Nomfusi is a South African and not a Calabar woman.

There was no xenophobia when it came to fraud
Foreign AffairsRe: Anatoly Chubais Resigns And Flees Russia by Igbofam(op): 9:39pm On Mar 23, 2022
Excuzeme:
"Comprehension issues" is rife on Nairaland!
I highlighted the "source" of the News (Bloomberg News) that TASS quoted and you still ask the above question?

How does expressing one's opinion, make such person a Wailer?
Seems guys like you have limited vocabulary and just throw the same, few words around? undecided
No be only Wailer, na Whale. tongue
Again wailer eye dey pain you?

Bloomberg clearly also stated that the very same news was declared by Russian media TASS.

Lack of comprehension is really your bane

One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's high-ranking advisors has reportedly stepped down and left the country, according to Russian state media outlet TASS
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Foreign AffairsRe: Anatoly Chubais Resigns And Flees Russia by Igbofam(op): 9:14pm On Mar 23, 2022
Excuzeme:
Let me quote part of the Article:


It is sad that even adults can differentiate between News and Propaganda!
Right there in the Message, it says BLOOMBERG, when did Bloomberg become a Russian media? shocked huh

Again, you cant seem to differentiate between "Highest RANKED ... and High RANKING.
The Man that was said to have resigned, is a high RANKING Official (I dont know how "high" a CLIMATE CHANGE official can be, but l know that is a job Govt gives to someone who you dont want to embarrass but you still need to give him something to eat and talk on. grin grin

The Highest RANKED Official in the Kremlin is way far from and higher than this Man.

Also, How can he be the one that gave Putin his "first job" in the 90's, when Putin, as a young KGB Officer in the former USSR, is already helping African Countries to train their Guirrela fighters, against western Govts, as far back as the late 70's?
How then is it that this man gave him his FIRST job, over 20yrs later? shocked

Try to spot Propaganda, when you see it.
This story is full of so many INCONSISTENCIES that it sticks out like a Propaganda, from a Mile off and it can only be spurned by a Western propaganda Media like Bloomberg.
Are they not the ones that said Russia killed Thousands of people with a Missile Strike at a Theatre, yet not a single dead body was found... and Ukraien President later said "Miraculously", No One Died? grin grin
Wailer eye dey pain you?

One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's high-ranking advisors has reportedly stepped down and left the country, according to Russian state media outlet TASS.
Foreign AffairsRe: Anatoly Chubais Resigns And Flees Russia by Igbofam(op): 3:46pm On Mar 23, 2022
Where are the Putin fanboys who shout Western Propaganda everywhere. This news was declared by RUSSIA'S own media outlet TASS.

E don zehh for Russia
. grin
Foreign AffairsRe: Alexei Sharov: Ukraine Kills Putin's 15th Commander by Igbofam(op): 3:44pm On Mar 23, 2022
babyboy4every1:
It's like you don't know what Russia have in her arsenal. Over 6000 nukes and noon have not been used. USA knew this and will not allow putting use it, otherwise, the whole of West and Europe will be history
Small boy syndrome is disturbing you
Foreign AffairsRe: Alexei Sharov: Ukraine Kills Putin's 15th Commander by Igbofam(op): 3:44pm On Mar 23, 2022
babyboy4every1:
And you believe it's the Ukrainians defending their territory or the Nato. If not for nato and the USA, Ukraine would definitely have gone down
Is NATO the one shooting and firing rockets in Ukraine?

All the weapons Ukraine has been using is it NATO who has been firing them?
Foreign AffairsRe: Alexei Sharov: Ukraine Kills Putin's 15th Commander by Igbofam(op): 3:41pm On Mar 23, 2022
Waxhead:
It's neither rumbles nor rubbles. It is rubble. It's an uncountable noun.
Some of us actually not only went to school but we paid very good attention to English grammar while in class.

Update your knowledge of Plural words using the attached

Foreign AffairsAnatoly Chubais Resigns And Flees Russia by Igbofam(op): 3:18pm On Mar 23, 2022
A longtime Putin advisor has reportedly stepped down from his post and fled the country.

Anatoly Chubais left his job in Russia's government over the country's war in Ukraine.
He is the highest-ranking Kremlin official to break ties with Russia over the war, Bloomberg reported.

One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's high-ranking advisors has reportedly stepped down and left the country, according to Russian state media outlet TASS.

Anatoly Chubais, who served as Putin's climate change envoy and gave Putin his first government job in the 90s, quit in protest over the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg reported.

Chubais is the highest-level Kremlin official to break ties with Russia over the war, according to Bloomberg.

The Russian oligarch has been an influential reformer in Russia's government since the fall of the Soviet Union.

The move comes nearly a month after Putin launched a full-scale invasion against Ukraine, resulting in thousands of fatalities.

Chubais's resignation comes after another official, Arkady Dvorkovich, who formerly served as former deputy prime minister under Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, resigned from his position as chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation last week and openly denounced the war against Ukraine.

"My thoughts are with Ukrainian civilians," Dvorkovich said in an interview with Mother Jones. "Wars do not just kill priceless lives. Wars kill hopes and aspirations, freeze or destroy relationships and connections

During a televised speech last week, Putin lambasted citizens who don't support Russia in Ukraine, according to Aljazeera.

Russians, he said, "will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and will simply spit them out like a gnat that accidentally flew into their mouths."

"I am convinced that such a natural and necessary self-purification of society will only strengthen our country," he added, according to the report.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/putins-longtime-advisor-Anatoly-Chubais-resigns-ukraine-war-2022-3%3famp

Foreign AffairsRe: US Senators Working Towards Freezing Russia's $132billion in Gold Reserves. by Igbofam(op): 3:04pm On Mar 23, 2022
VictorUSA:
This is a proxy war btween U.S and Russia.While one is busy unleashing its weapons on Ukraine, the other one is busy imposing sanctions.
And preserving it's human, material and financial resources. This getting bigger while the one unleashing weapons is slowly drying up all it's resources
Foreign AffairsRe: US Senators Working Towards Freezing Russia's $132billion in Gold Reserves. by Igbofam(op): 2:53pm On Mar 23, 2022
toxtimmy:
And you are still here on nairaland wasting your data?... you mates dey invent things you dey here they type jibberish... even Buhari dey laugh you like there is someone on nairaland that he is smarter than...lol
I do business all over the world. The west is just about waking up and when they do my business begins. This is my play time.

Brokering a deal that will revolutionize the world in terms of energy and warfare.

Some of us are not jobless as it appears you are.
Foreign AffairsRe: Alexei Sharov: Ukraine Kills Putin's 15th Commander by Igbofam(op): 2:49pm On Mar 23, 2022
gaspology:
[s]An impression must be corrected here so Comedian Zelensky's apologists would not run to town on the assumption that Ukraine is winning. Unlike the cowardly pattern in US, UK and even Naija, where commanders direct operations of war from comforts of cosy offices, Russia commanders lead from front. Research on this heroic history. Russian commanders are not cowards who dodge bullets like their western counterparts. So casualties of top officers are expected and appreciated just like rank and file. Now that you know... grin[/s]
Foreign AffairsRe: US Senators Working Towards Freezing Russia's $132billion in Gold Reserves. by Igbofam(op): 2:47pm On Mar 23, 2022
toxtimmy:
lol... as far as i know I am not stopping you to invest your money in mineral assets... you emanate symptoms of a slow poke with a tin foil hat that was provided to you by CNN and hollywood.
I emanate an intelligence your entire lineage can only grovel and drool for.
Foreign AffairsRe: Alexei Sharov: Ukraine Kills Putin's 15th Commander by Igbofam(op): 2:46pm On Mar 23, 2022
Cherrybae:
Only the enemies of freedom will believe this fake news from the western media.

By this time next week, Russia will finally take over Ukraine.

Puttin is indeed a courageous man and will teach the West a lesson.

Ukraine must surrender or face the wrath of putting
Even the Kremlin just disclosed yesterday that NONE of their objectives have been achieved in Ukraine and you keyboard warrior is claiming that Russia will overcome Ukraine within another week when they have clearly not achieved any of their objectives in a month grin

Who is your weed supplier?
Foreign AffairsRe: US Senators Working Towards Freezing Russia's $132billion in Gold Reserves. by Igbofam(op): 2:35pm On Mar 23, 2022
toxtimmy:
You watch too many CNN et al.... and Too many Hollywood movies... You are a slow poke and I'm out of here as I got bigger fish to fry elsewhere.

Just so you know Russia have officially told US and EU that they will have to pay for gas in Rubbles... If I were smart, you will rush and buy Rubbles as it's going to go way up... You can make some money out of buying Rubbles now.... See I don't hate you but will give you the knowledge to be successful and hopefully help you get your slave mentality hat off.
If you were smart you would never depend on fiat currency. I invest my money in tangible net mineral assets

You are the slowpoke
Foreign AffairsRe: US Senators Working Towards Freezing Russia's $132billion in Gold Reserves. by Igbofam(op): 1:53pm On Mar 23, 2022
sukkot:
bro you are just being emotional. even bible tells you the borrower is always subject and a slave to the lender. everyone sees that the usa is dying and crumbling hence why all these wars are happening because the new players want to take center stage. china is with russia. forget that emotional talk bro, usa is finished and china and russia are angling to put the death blow in.

roughly $1.08 trillion
How much money does the U.S. owe to China? China owns roughly $1.08 trillion worth of U.S. debt
Debt can always be paid in Kind. Sit this one out. The world does not revolve around cash alone
Foreign AffairsRe: US Senators Working Towards Freezing Russia's $132billion in Gold Reserves. by Igbofam(op): 1:50pm On Mar 23, 2022
toxtimmy:
Wrong.... look for the end result... the end result is the key... You can apply make up and lip stick to a rabid dog like the US and it's still a rabid dog.

Iran with all the sanctions and freeze of assets by the US have so much advanced in terms of militarily and self sufficiency that the US/Isreal is threatened by Iran's advancement that US is focused on lifting Irans sanctions and all Isreal does is threaten everyday they will attack Iran... At the end of the day Iran will get all their frozen asset back.

As for Russia they have tons of business partners to do business without using the west monetary system... Russia is one of the most technologically advanced country in the world and they are big time into farming as well... They have a lot of natural resources as well... And even with this sanctions from the US is still importing natural resources from Russia... Germany the same... France is still doing billion dollar business in the Russia right now as I type... I can go on and on... But at the end of the day nothing can make you change you from seeing things from the outside unless you want to yourself.

2/3 of the world don't give a f...ck about sanction from US/EU on Russia and will do business with Russia... Africa as a continent will do business with Russia on a daily basis... Think about this for a moment, if Russia sells weapons only to Africa that will run into billions of dollars yearly... But I hope African leaders focus more on doing business outside weapons with Russia simply because EuroAsia is the future.
Iran, North Korea and the rest of them have not even experienced 1/100 of what Russia is facing now in terms of Sanctions.

Russia is getting the great great great grandmother of all sanctions and already the Russian economy is in massive decline. Job losses in the thousands already, Useless currency, stock exchange evaporated....

All in less than a month of sanctions. Imagine these sanctions being sustained for just 1 more year or even 6 months.

When you spend more than you make you will eventually go broke. That will be Russia's story eventually

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