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A government spokesman said Budapest will not back a ban on Russian oil and gas


Hungary has denied a report in the German media which claims that the country is prepared to support an EU ban on Russian oil and gas in response to Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine.

Budapest affirmed its stance on the matter after German public broadcaster ZDF quoted sources as saying that “hesitant” countries, such as Austria, Hungary, and Slovakia, have “withdrawn their veto.”

The Hungarian government’s international spokesman, Zoltan Kovacs, tweeted on Monday: “No, dear editors at ZDF, Hungary did not ‘move away from its veto’. In fact, Hungary’s stance on oil and gas sanctions [from] Russia remains unchanged: We do not support them.”

Hungary, which relies heavily on Russian energy imports, has warned that cutting off supplies from Moscow will hurt its economy. “We must not adopt sanctions with which we primarily penalize ourselves instead of those we want to sanction,” Gergely Gulyas, the prime minister’s chief of staff, told Kossuth Radio on Sunday. He explained that his country has been experiencing higher than expected inflation, and is interested in continuing to receive “energy at the cheapest possible price.”

In a separate interview with HirTV, Gulyas confirmed that Budapest will never support an embargo on Russian oil and gas.

The EU unveiled a plan in March to do away with Russian fossil fuels by 2030, but stopped short of an immediate ban, defying calls from Kiev to do so.


https://www rt com/news/554847-hungary-russian-energy-embargo/

baralatie:
You dey mind the person ?
It is a clowned moniker with many accounts posting orishirishi about Ukraine winning the war!
The reality on ground is what these alakoba people cannot erase!

Ukraine is been brushed like no tomorrow

it’s a matter of time brother, e go soon clear everyone go see am

WATCHOVER:
Lies, some say Nine, others say Ten, Ukraine and lies, thus is why Zelensky must die

you Dey mind those loonatics na dem Dey celebrate imaginary general’s death….hungry kids.

Who let the dogs out.
Una no fit pass your comments without insults. Putin ain’t responsible your misfortunes in life, channel your aggression to apc/pdp and your poor father.

Modasucker

Elporo:
Effeminate Nigerian men are rising in nos!

https://tass.com/economy/1444227

dem go talk say Tass na Russia propaganda but Kyiv independent is legit…. Hahahaha

RT nah propaganda but Kyiv independent is authentic…. Una don ment finish

Detuner:
All dis wey Germany dey yan na shakara.

Russia stopping gas flow to Germany and other European countries would cripple those countries economy, industries and would see inflation shooting through the roof. The chaos it'll create would topple govt in those countries. Western countries have no short time solution for Russia gas, and have far more to loose.


Russia already has Germany by the balls

don’t mind those modasuckers, the title says Oil….not natural gas!


Dem go unleash the package on Wednesday e go Dey clear, dem no go wan commit suicide

MrBrownJay1:
you mean, AFTER russia has denied the backdoor payment you wanted to use to pay for Russian natural gas?! BWAAAAAAAH! wandaful!

oil is different from natural gas bro

Another lamba….

You’re doing well

Elporo:
Poland is buying via Germany

nah propaganda, Poland will never buy Russian gas again …. Lemaoooooo

kiddkash:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScxxGbwbMM

we all know that Zelensky lacks wisdom and is being used to know what will happen if they ever provoke Russia

but these people are suffering because of poor decisions made by their leader for failing to implement the Minsk agreement

OP na propaganda Ukraine is winning, 50000 Russian troops don die like this…. Have you seen Saint Petersburg ? E be like Mauripol now, Zelenski and his soldiers don encircle the port city

This loonatic don reach here… na your source make dem Dey believe abi…. Pray make ASUU call off strike cos your life dey waste Dey go be that….

Dindinrin…..

Thousands of families fear loved ones are buried in the rubble of buildings, injured and unable to make contact, or have been forcibly moved to Russia, Belarus or occupied territory in eastern Ukraine.


The last time Tetiana Popovych spoke to her son was on the first of March.

Vlad Popovych, 29, had been sheltering in the basement of a school in his village just outside Kyiv as Russian forces advanced.

"He told me, 'Mum don't come here. Something awful is starting. This is not like in the movies. This is a terrible war,'" Tetiana recalled.

The following day he tried to escape but was shot and wounded - and then vanished, leaving his family frantic with worry.

They are one of thousands of families torn apart by Russia's war, with loved ones feared buried in the rubble of buildings, injured and unable to make contact or even forcibly moved by Russian soldiers to Russia, Belarus or occupied territory in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine's interior ministry said the police have received more than 7,000 reports of missing people since Russia's invasion started. Only about half have been located.

Tetiana, 52, spends her days searching for her son, clinging to the hope her only child is still alive.

"It is the most difficult thing," she said, speaking in the town of Bucha, where she lives with her mother. It is a mile away from the village of Blystavytsya where her son had been staying with his father - Tetiana's ex-husband - and stepmother.

"If only I had some thread of information about what happened to him. I never thought that I would need to know whether my son is alive or dead," she said.


Nah only Ukrainians sabi the reality, no be una jobless, hungry, retards here on nairaland, with that cheap techno phones and daily 50mb. Ukraine is winning[i] on Twitter.

Unfortunate souls everywhere, soldiers go die una go create threads about it and wannnk, Soldiers are born to die, Ukraine is being leveled every seconds, e go take several decades to overcome the reality wey Dey ground.
More weapons means more death, of course on both sides but not the same ratio. With the current level of destruction in that country, I shake my head, but the western toilet go cook something for una to drink, reality nah bastard, no matter how dem try sweet talk or cover it, e go show head. I’m not happy innocent people are being killed every minutes, but nah war I hope their soul Rest In Peace. As dem take accept the reality of ghost of Kiev, the video games wey dem Dey post and delete na everything we Dey see…

Do I need to remind una that life is normal in Russia, dem dey live their lives with no fear, zero threats, even in the west life dey normal. Nah only mumu go allow make dem use his country as a battlefield.

If they’re ready to end the war, they know what to do, till then. I wish Ukrainians all the best. I hope and pray she finds her son alive….

Read more … https://news sky com/story/ukraine-war-i-want-to-believe-in-a-miracle-says-mother-of-one-of-7-000-people-reported-missing-12603648

sapientia:
Twitter Putards cant even be as stupid as both of you

Typical Putards always ranting from one point to another

Joke is on both of you

Dindinrin who Dey follow a church rat like you argue.

Ukraine is winning, in fact Ukraine don win

Shebi na wetin you wan hear be that

Abeg don’t quote me anymore if you no wan make thunder faya your yansh

Fr33born:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZVQyKbIjio

Singer, Kizz Daniel aka Vado D’Great has finally quit smoking as he celebrates his birthday.

In a video he shared on sunday morning which he captioned “ON THIS DAY, I QUIT SMOKING”, the singer who clocked 28 on Saturday, said he has resolved to quit smoking as a gift to his kids and people who genuinely love him.

With his song “Addict” playing in the background, Kizz Daniel said: “As I celebrate my birthday, for the sake of my kids and people that genuinely love me, I quit”. He immediately reached for a pack of cigarettes, opened it, broke some and emptied it on the floor.

The singer also advised those still struggling with the same addiction to quit as it is not good

Happy Birthday Kizz Daniel.



https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc_m5Wdg5Dm/

nah lie dude ain’t 28. We graduated from the same high school,(Abeograms) I’ll be 33 this year. I think na only footballer dey use football age

dvkot:
Ukraine is fighting USA war.. And killing her citizen, let them hand the president another script

bro, Ukraine is winning oooo….

European leaders won’t admit they’re going along with Russia’s deal, government official Gergely Gulyas said

While multiple European leaders have publicly proclaimed they won’t buy Russian gas in rubles as Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded, 10 EU countries are technically going along with Putin’s plan, Hungarian official Gergely Gulyas told public radio on Sunday. According to Gulyas, these countries’ leaders aren’t admitting this in order to be seen as “being a good European.”

Gulyas said that Hungary has opened a euro account with Russia’s Gazprombank, which then converts payments into rubles before transferring them to suppliers in Russia. This system allows European buyers to comply with Putin’s demand, made in late March, that “unfriendly” countries switch to Russia’s national currency to buy its natural gas.


“There are nine other countries using the same payment scheme, but because today the idea of being a good European also means that the leaders of those countries are not honest when speaking either in the international arena or to their own people, the other nine countries won’t say that they are doing the same thing,” said Gulyas, who serves as Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff.


There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that countries importing raw materials from Russia use exactly the same method to pay for Russian gas,” he added.

It is unclear which EU countries Guylas was referring to. Russian energy giant Gazprom has already shut off supplies to Poland and Bulgaria after both refused to pay in rubles, but a Bloomberg report last week stated, as Gulyas did, that 10 of the bloc’s member states have already set up accounts with Gazprombank, and four have actually paid for Russian gas using this mechanism.

Hungary depends on Russia for all of its gas imports, and has therefore opposed EU sanctions on this critical commodity. Gulyas reiterated this commitment to Russian energy and opposition to Brussels’ sanctions regime on Sunday.

“We mustn’t adopt sanctions with which we primarily penalize ourselves instead of those we want to sanction,” he said, referring to soaring energy costs throughout Europe. While the government in Budapest has condemned Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, Guylas said that it would “continue to buy our energy at the cheapest possible price” to offset any costs on the Hungarian people.


https://www rt com/business/554827-hungary-eu-gas-rubles/

sapientia:
Russia have lost 20k plus soldeirs

Lost a FLAG ship

Spent billions of Dollars

Warning they will send nuclear missles

and clowns like you said they are gentle

The joke is on you

Russia cannot do more than this

Russian has lost 100,000 soldiers still counting…. Oh Lord Zelenski pls have mercy

Chai
Hard to predict

By Frank Gardner
Security correspondent

Ukraine and its allies, including London, are threatening Russia for the last 1,000 years, to move Nato to our borders, to cancel our culture - they have bullied us for many, many years." That is what Yevgeny Popov, a member of the Russian Duma (parliament) and an influential TV host in Russia, told the BBC's Ukrainecast on 19 April. "Of course Nato plans for Ukraine are a direct threat to Russian citizens."

His views were both surprising and enlightening as to the very different narrative put out by the Kremlin, compared to the way it's viewed in the West. To European and Western ears, these pronouncements sound almost unfathomable, even amounting to a blatant disregard for carefully documented evidence. Yet these are just some of the beliefs held not only by Kremlin supporters in Russia and across the wider population there but also in several other parts of the world.

After Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, the UN held an emergency vote - 141 nations out of 193 UN member states voted a week later to condemn it. But a number of major countries chose to abstain, including China, India and South Africa. So it would be delusional for Western leaders to believe that the entire world shares Nato's view - that Russia is entirely to blame for this catastrophic war - because it doesn't.


So why are so many countries on the fence about Russia's invasion?

There are many reasons, ranging from straightforward economic or military self-interest, to accusations of Western hypocrisy to Europe's colonial past. There is no one-size-fits-all. Every country may have its own particular reasons for not wanting to publicly condemn Russia or alienate President Putin


'No limits' to co-operation

Let's start with China, the world's most populous state with more than 1.4 billion people, most of whom get their news on Ukraine from the state-controlled media, just as most people do in Russia. China received a high-profile visitor to its Winter Olympics shortly before the Ukraine invasion began on 24 February - President Putin. A Chinese communique issued afterwards said there "was no limit to the two countries' co-operation". So did Putin tip off his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that he was about to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine? Absolutely not, says China, but it's hard to imagine that there would have not been even just a hint of what was to come to such an important neighbour.

China and Russia may one day end up being strategic rivals, but today they are partners and share a common disdain, bordering on enmity, for Nato, the West and its democratic values. China has already clashed with the US over Chinese military expansion into the South China Sea. Beijing has also clashed with Western governments over its treatment of its Uighur population, its crushing of democracy in Hong Kong and its frequently repeated vow to "return Taiwan to the fold", by force if necessary.

So China and Russia have a common enemy in Nato, and their governments' worldview percolates down to both countries' populations with the result that, for the most part, they simply do not share the West's abhorrence of Russia's invasion and alleged war crimes.

India and Pakistan have their own reasons for not wanting to antagonise Russia. India gets much of its arms from Moscow and, after its recent clash with China in the Himalayas, India is betting that one day it may need Russia as an ally and protector.

Pakistan's recently ousted Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been a fierce critic of the West, especially the US. Pakistan also receives arms from Russia and it needs Moscow's blessing to help secure trade routes into its northern hinterland of Central Asia. Prime Minister Khan went ahead with a pre-planned visit to see President Putin on 24 February, the very day Russia invaded Ukraine. Both India and Pakistan abstained in the UN vote to condemn the invasion.

Hypocrisy and double standards

Then there is the accusation, shared by many, especially in Muslim-majority countries, that the West, led by its most powerful nation - the US - is guilty of hypocrisy and double standards. In 2003, the US and UK chose to bypass the UN - and much of world opinion - by invading Iraq on spurious grounds, leading to years of violence. Washington and London have also been accused of helping to prolong the civil war in Yemen, by arming the Royal Saudi Air Force which conducts frequent airstrikes there in support of the country's official government.

For many states in Africa there are other, even more historic reasons at play. In Soviet times, Moscow poured arms into the continent as it sought to confront US and Western influence from the Sahara to the Cape. In some places, a legacy of western European colonisation in the 19th and 20th centuries is a lasting resentment of the West that plays out even today. France, which rushed troops into Mali in 2013 - to prevent an Al-Qaeda takeover of the whole country - is not popular in its former colony. So now the bulk of French troops have left, to be replaced by the Kremlin-backed Russian mercenaries of the Wagner Group.


And where does the Middle East stand on this? No surprises that Syria - along with North Korea, Belarus and Eritrea - has backed Russia's invasion. Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad [/i]relies heavily on Russia for his survival after his country risked being overrun by ISIS fighters in 2015. But even long-time Western allies, like Saudi Arabia and the[b] United Arab Emirates[/b] (UAE) although they backed the UN vote, have been relatively muted in their criticism of Moscow. [i]The UAE's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, has a good relationship with Vladimir Putin - his previous ambassador to Moscow has been on hunting trips with him.

It is also worth remembering that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has a largely dysfunctional relationship with President Biden. Such is their mutual dislike, that the two men reportedly refuse to take each other's phone calls. Before that, when the world's leaders gathered in Buenos Aires for the G20 Summit - in late 2018, just weeks after the West accused the Saudi crown prince of ordering the grisly murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi - most Western leaders gave the Saudi prince the cold shoulder. Putin, by contrast, high-fived him. That's not something the Saudi leader will have forgotten in a hurry.

None of this means that all those countries mentioned actively support this invasion, apart from Belarus. Only five states voted in favour of it on 2 March at the UN, and one of those was Russia. But what it does mean is that, for multiple reasons, the West cannot assume the rest of the world shares its view of Putin, nor of the sanctions, nor of the West's willingness to openly confront Russia's invasion with ever more lethal supplies of weaponry to Ukraine.

https://www bbc com/news/world-europe-61272203

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Emma1Oj:
deep within you, you know the bolded isn't possible.

I will even use your city to carry the third one at uefa final.

I will quote you

Nah wife wey Dey abroad dey enjoy pass….

Emma1Oj:
don't worry wesham n wolves will do d damage

common ordinary wolves and westham…. This don happen b4 you know, nah that 1 point we go take carry the league, if care is not take na only Carabao cup una go win this season

Nigeria which way…

Na so so bad news from motherland… oga ooo

slawormiir:
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Jmichael1:
we go continue to chase una till d final day...
WE NEVER GIVE UP....
WE NEVER WALK ALONE....

una go walk alone laslas, if care is not taken na only Carabao cup you go lift this season

But Ukraine is winning nah… let them keep winning in peace oooo

Those western looonatics asssslickers here, there energy don reduce, dem don calm down, reality don humble em , reality don break their phone screen, as Fernandez nonentity don go MIA, his phone don spoil no money to fix am…..

Hahahahaha, dem no Dey tell person…..

GODPUNISHALABI:
Liverpool forget about epl u cannot beat pep in this game trust me they will win all their matches left

don’t mind em, make dem keep dreaming

Angelfrost:
Hearty congrats to them...

Love the way Ancellotti rested his players and still got his victory.

Now, they can focus on UCL!!! Wednesday shall be war!!!

dem go collect wotowoto, you’re free to quote me anytime

Previously opposed to sanctioning Moscow, President Aleksandar Vucic has come under intense pressure from Washington to relent


Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said that he will issue a statement on possible anti-Russia sanctions early next month, but will be guided by “the interests of Serbia” alone. Vucic has vehemently opposed penalizing Moscow for its offensive in Ukraine, but has come under pressure from the US to change his stance.

“As for us and the imposition of sanctions, I will talk about this more and more thoroughly on May 6,” Vucic told reporters at a military expo near Belgrade on Saturday, according to RIA Novosti. While acknowledging that he has been under pressure from unnamed politicians to acquiesce to the West’s sanctions regime, Vucic added that “our policy should be a policy of responsibility, a policy of development for Serbia, which will think about the interests of Serbia at every moment.”

From the outset of the conflict in Ukraine, Vucic has sought to maintain relations with both the West and Russia. Although Serbia voted for a United Nations resolution condemning Russia’s military operation, Vucic later said that he was blackmailed into doing so, with his country threatened with energy sanctions if it refused

However, Vucic has since categorically refused to sanction Moscow. After being re-elected with 58% of the vote earlier this month, he stated that banning the import of Russian oil and gas would cripple the Serbian economy, and imposing sanctions would be “immoral and inefficient,” citing the hardship his own country suffered under EU, UN and US sanctions in the 1990s.

However, shortly after Vucic’s electoral victory, a trio of US senators visited Belgrade in a bid to win the president over to the West’s side. “We understand Serbia has a long cultural and economic history with Russia,” Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat, told reporters after meeting with Vucic. “But this is a moment where there is great risk if we…don’t send a united message about the consequences of Russia’s behavior in Ukraine.”

Murphy added that the US would continue to support Serbia’s path to joining the European Union, a path that likely depends on siding with the West against Moscow.

Serbia is a traditional ally of Russia, and anti-Western and particularly anti-NATO sentiment runs high in the country. NATO forces waged an air war against Serbia on behalf of Kosovan separatists in 1999, paving the way for UN peacekeepers to occupy Kosovo, severing the province from Serbia.

As such, even Vucic’s decision to join the UN vote condemning Russia in February led to a thousands-strong pro-Russia protest on the streets of Belgrade.

“I don't care about either Western or Eastern embassies. I don't care about the Americans, or the Russians, or the Europeans, or anyone else. I will make decisions in accordance with the interests of the Republic of Serbia,” Vucic said on Saturday.


https://www rt com/news/554787-vucic-serbia-russia-sanctions/