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Finland formally confirms intention to join Nato

Florida Report Daily May 15, 2022

Finland has formally confirmed it intends to join Nato, abandoning decades of military non-alignment in a historic policy shift triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “The president and the government’s foreign policy committee have agreed that after consulting parliament, Finland will

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Russia hits rail, fuel facilities in attacks deep in Ukraine

Florida Report Daily April 25, 2022

Russia unleashed a string of attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel facilities Monday, striking crucial infrastructure far from the front line of its eastern offensive. Meanwhile, two fires were reported at oil facilities in western Russia, not far from the Ukrainian border. It was not clear what caused the blazes. As both sides in the […]

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Russia continues to supply gas to Europe with a question mark

Florida Report Daily March 8, 2022

As Russia continues to supply gas to Europe via pipelines, it is also warning that deliveries to Germany via Nord Stream 1 could be stopped. Moscow stressed that it could cut deliveries to Germany via the pipeline following Berlin’s recent decision to halt the launch of the completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Reuters reports. Gascade, […]

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EU aims to cut Russian gas use by two thirds this year

Florida Report Daily March 8, 2022

The European Union has presented a new proposal intended to end the bloc’s dependency on Russian gas completely in the long run, while drastically cutting its consumption as soon as this year. “We must become independent from Russian oil, coal and gas”, European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, declared in a statement issued today. […]

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EU prepares new batch of sanctions against Russian oligarchs

Florida Report Daily March 8, 2022

The European Commission has prepared a fresh batch of sanctions against Russia and Belarus, the latest move by the EU to increase the economic pressure on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. The new sanctions expand on the existing list of Russian oligarchs who have already had their European assets frozen and are not allowed […]

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Ukraine cyberattack: Russia blamed for ‘largest’ disruption of its kind in country’s history

Florida Report Daily February 17, 2022

Ukrainian officials investigating Tuesday’s cyberattacks that brought down websites belonging to its Ministry of Defense, army and popular banks are now calling the incident the “largest” of its kind in the history of the country – and suspect Russia is the culprit. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks come as U.S. and NATO continue to cast […]

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Erdoğan offers to mediate between Ukraine and Russia

Florida Report Daily February 3, 2022

The Turkish president and wild card of Nato diplomacy, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will fly to Kyiv on Thursday to offer himself again in the role of mediator between Ukraine and the Russian president Vladimir Putin. He will be joining the flock of overseas leaders lending their support to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy and is expected […]

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France’s Macron calls for EU plan to ease Russia tensions

Florida Report Daily January 20, 2022

French President Emmanuel Macron called Wednesday on the European Union to quickly draw up a new security plan containing proposals to help ease tensions with Russia, as concern mounts that Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning an invasion of Ukraine. The EU must in coming weeks “complete a European proposal building a new security and […]