Cash-reliant Afghanistan is set to get new banknotes, that will be printed in Europe, as those in circulation crumble and disintegrate, the US State Department’s Spokesman Ned Price confirmed Wednesday. Price said at a press conference in Washington that two transactions to pay to print Afghani banknotes has been facilitated by the US. “These two
states, intelligence already warned that russia may seek to use that moment for enhanced attacks on ukrainian civilian infrastructure and targets. so, you know, i think at a minimum you see, you know, a father using his own daughter s death to rally the russian people, he s used words like nazis in relation to the ukrainians, and one of the leading people inside russia today, casting this as almost an existential contest to wipe out ukrainians as a people and as a nation. i spoke with state department spokesman ned price last night about all of this, i want to play for you what he said. look, there are lots of questions, again, we have heard very clearly from our ukrainian partners, they have nothing to do with this. i think it also bears repeating something we all know that we have to take with a grain of salt absolutely everything we hear from the kremlin. the kremlin has never given us a
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. live look at san diego this morning. very pretty. time to wake up there. you just heard state department spokesman ned price tell us the u.s. will help its european partners after russia cut off natural gas supplies to poland and bulgaria, a major escalation in the economic war between the kremlin and the west. the eu accused russia of blackmail and the international energy agency said moscow is trying to weaponize energy supplies. the polish and bulgarian prime ministers were defiant, insisting they wouldn t give in to russian pressure. the energy giant gasprom tried to justify the move saying poland and bulgaria had refused to pay in russian rubles as demanded by vladimir putin. european gas priced jumped 20%