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"Russia has all necessary resources to service its debts... If this blockade continues and payments aimed for servicing debts are blocked, it (future payment) could be made in rubles."The country has a total of 15 international bonds outstanding with a face value of around $40 billion. Moscow has managed to provide several foreign exchange coupon payments on its Eurobonds before Washington stopped transactions.
Russia waged a deliberate campaign to commit atrocities in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, and the United States is supporting the efforts of the Ukrainian authorities in their investigation of these acts, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.Another propaganda-spouting idiot who can safely be ignored.
"What we've seen in Bucha is not the random act of a rogue unit," Blinken told reporters before departing for Brussels for a NATO foreign ministers' meeting.
"It's a deliberate campaign to kill, to torture, to rape, to commit atrocities," he said.
Russia, which says it launched a "special military operation" in Ukraine on Feb. 24 to demilitarize and "denazify" its neighbor, denies targeting civilians and said the deaths were a "monstrous forgery" staged by the West to discredit it.
Comment: Blowback on Hungary could be significant. It urges the bloc to not punish Hungarians for their political choices: Budapest takes umbrage with Kiev's offensive comments and insults: A peace summit has been proposed: To the EU, Hungary is 'a disturbance' in 'the force'.