️TASS News Roundup, March 26:

️TASS News Roundup, March 26:

▪️Protecting national interests requires sovereignty, Vladimir Putin said at the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

▪️Iran carried out strikes on US bases in Bahrain, the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reported

▪️IRGC Navy chief Alireza Tangsiri was killed in a strike near Bandar Abbas in southern Iran

▪️Iran sent an official response to the United States’ 15-point ceasefire proposal, the Tasnim news agency reported

▪️Russian forces took control of the settlement of Shevyakovka in the Kharkov Region

▪️Donald Trump extended a number of anti-Russian sanctions for another year

▪️A delegation of Russian lawmakers held a meeting with members of the US Congress

▪️The US lifted sanctions on the Belarusian Ministry of Finance, two banks and the Belaruskali fertilizer producer

▪️A US judge refused to dismiss the case against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

▪️China successfully launched two remote sensing satellites into space

▪️The International Olympic Committee banned transgender athletes from competing in women’s events

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