Top News of April 17

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Top news of April 16 ✹ Trump announced that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to a ceasefire. The State Department published the text of the agreement. ✹ Russia carried out its largest combined strike on Ukraine since the start of the year. ✹ The Russian internet is now overseen by the FSB’s Second Service…

Top News of April 17

✹ Iran announced that it had opened the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial vessels. Against this backdrop, the price of Brent crude fell to 90 dollars a barrel.

✹ Trump promised that Israel would no longer bomb Lebanon, because the U.S. had forbidden it to do so.

✹ Russia’s minister of economic development said that the country’s economic reserves have been “largely exhausted.”

✹ Zelensky said that Russia may try to drag Belarus into the war. He added that Lukashenko should remember the “consequences of recent events in Venezuela.”

✹ The state-run polling agency VTsIOM has been recording a continuous decline in Putin’s approval rating since early March

✹ Ukrainian intelligence claims that Russia plans to sharply increase the number of massive missile-and-drone attacks, to as many as seven per month.

✹ Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency proposed banning the use of power banks on board aircraft.

✹ Text of the day. Iran temporarily opened the Strait of Hormuz, but the U.S. is continuing its blockade. What will this lead to? Meduza’s analysis.

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