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Russia's Foreign Minister said on Friday that the West has declared "total war" on Russia because of the sanctions it has imposed on Moscow.

During a meeting in which he described actions that Western nations have taken in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a "real hybrid war," the Associated Press reported.

According to the AP, the West has a goal to destroy, break, and destroy the Russian economy, and Russia on the whole.

He said that Russia has allies.

Russia has many friends, allies, partners in the world, a huge number of associations in which it is working with countries of all continents, and we will continue to do so, according to reports.

Russia has intensified its targeting of civilian areas since invading Ukraine a month ago. The Biden administration accused Moscow of war crimes.

President Biden is in Europe this week. The allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin were hit with new sanctions.

Biden will deliver a major address on Saturday in Poland, where he will end his trip to Europe. Poland and Ukraine have a border.

The Russian economy has been hurt by the international sanctions.

  • Washington imposed fresh sanctions on dozens of Russian defense companies, hundreds of members of its parliament and the chief executive of the country's largest bank on Thursday, as the United States and its allies stepped up pressure on Moscow. The U.S. Treasury Department is trying to stop Russia from evading existing sanctions by issuing guidance on gold related transactions.

  • The stepdaughter of the Foreign Minister of Russia is one of the people that Britain said it was sanctioning on Thursday. State-run shipping firm Sovcomflot, private military contractor Wagner Group, and Alrosa, the world's largest diamond producer, were among the entities and individuals that were hit with sanctions. Britain and other Western nations are using sanctions to cripple the Russian economy and punish President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, in order to press him to abandon his plan to demilitarise the country.

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  • In a TV broadcast today, the Russian president claimed that the West was attempting to cancel his country and that he had responded to it by saying that he was a victim of cancel culture. The Harry Potter author tried to distance herself from Putin by posting the below message on the social networking site. Critiques.

  • An anonymous journalist from Russia 1 said they were told the war in Ukraine would only last a week.

  • The European Union nations did not like the idea of paying for Russian natural gas in rubles. If others put it less bluntly, it came down to the same thing, from the German Chancellor to the Italian Prime Minister. Early this week, Putin launched the idea that because of Western sanctions targeting the Kremlin and freezing Russian assets, they were effectively drawing a line over the reliability of their currencies.

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  • Russia's defence ministry said on Friday that the first phase of its military operation in Ukraine was mostly complete and that it would focus on the eastern part of the country. Russian news agencies quoted the defence ministry as saying that Russian-backed rebels now control almost all of the Luhansk region and almost all of the Donetsk region.

  • Russia's gold holdings could help bolster the ruble.

  • The chair of the upper house of parliament said this week that private rail firms should support state interests and allow Russian Railways to use their wagons. Russian Railways, the federal anti-monopoly service, the ministry of transport and the main industry association were asked to respond to the letter by April 10.

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  • The bombing of the theater in Mariupol may have killed as many as 300 people, according to Ukrainian officials.

  • There are now thousands of Ukrainian women soldiers. The women are in the cities they love and are being bombed.

  • More than 1,100 missiles have been launched on Ukraine by Russia.

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  • Sunak did not increase defence spending in his statement.

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  • Up to 60 percent of Russian missiles are failing, according to the U.S.

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  • Three U.S. officials with knowledge of intelligence said that Russian missiles were failing up to 60% of the time. Despite a vastly larger armed forces, Russia has failed to achieve basic objectives since President Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine. The U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity did not provide evidence to support the assessment and did not reveal what was driving high Russian missile failure rates.

  • The U.S. and its allies are moving to block financial transactions with Russia's Central Bank that involve gold, in order to further restrict the country's ability to use its international reserves. Putin has been accumulating gold. How much gold does Russia have?

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  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russians taxes were being used against them by funding a war that hurts Russia.

  • A senior U.S. official dismissed the limited resumption of trading as a "Potemkin market opening", as the market was underpinned by a government commitment to support stocks. The stock market in Moscow has not traded since Feb. 25, the day after Putin sent troops into Ukraine. The stock market plunged immediately after Moscow launched a special military operation.