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The EU has hammered through a new sanctions package against Russia. Another 120 or so people or organizations connected to Russia’s war in Ukraine are listed, TT reports.

The list is not open to the public. However, TT states that it concerns, among other things, people who were involved in the kidnapping of Ukrainian children to Russia and people with connections to the Wagner group.

For the first time, people and organizations from Iran are also listed. It concerns, among other things, individuals who are said to have helped supply Russia with drones.

Exports to Russia are also stopped, to a value of 11.4 billion euros. These include, among other things, heavy trucks and other vehicles, as well as technology that can contribute in various ways to Russia’s war industry.

It has also been decided that three more Russian banks will have their assets frozen and two more media outlets will be banned within the EU.

Russia has shut off the oil tap to Poland.

This is stated by the chairman of the PKN Orlen oil refinery in Poland.

“Russia has stopped oil supplies to Poland, which we are fully prepared for. Only 10 percent of the raw material came from Russia and we will replace it with oil from elsewhere. This is the effect of diversification that we have implemented in recent years,” writes Daniel Obajtek on Twitter.

A doll depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin – dressed in a suit and with a sign reading “War criminal” hung around its neck – was burned outside the Russian embassy in Stockholm on Saturday, reports DN.

According to the newspaper, it is supposed to be Russians living in Sweden who arranged the demonstration.

– I don’t think we are alone in the idea of ​​burning an effigy of Putin. We are many Russians who want to show our opposition to the war, says co-organizer Aleksej Karich.

There is a fire in an apartment in an apartment building in Holmsund in Umeå.

Emergency services and police are on the scene.

– There are many resources in place. It is a fully developed fire, says the management operator at the rescue service in Umeå.

There is no information on the state of the damage.

On Thursday, the European Commission banned Tiktok from employees’ mobile phones and computers.

The Danish parliament is also now considering banning Tiktok on members’ mobile phones, reports Danish TV2.

The reason is that there are concerns about data security and for the Chinese company Bytedance to collect information from those who use Tiktok.

A paraglider has crash landed in Rogaland in Norway, the Norwegian police sign Twitter.

The extent of the damage is currently unclear.

Police, ambulance and a rescue helicopter are on their way to the scene.

– The extent of the damage is unclear. It appears to be a crash landing which is probably serious. There are several resources on the way to the scene and the helicopter will probably arrive first, says operations leader Victor Fenne-Jensen, to VG.

Several people are said to have witnessed the accident.

Kazakhstan’s foreign minister announced on Saturday that the country supports the plan for the war in Ukraine that China recently put forward, TT reports.

In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs writes that the proposal deserves support as it is believed that it would stop the killing.

China has produced a document with several proposals for a “political solution” to the war between Russia and Ukraine. Among other things, it is about establishing a dialogue between Ukraine and Russia as soon as possible.

The announcement of Kazakhstan’s support comes just days before US Secretary of State Jeremy Blinken is to visit the country.

Runar Viktsten was appointed by national police chief Anders Thornberg to investigate the police’s handling of the case with Mats Löfving and Linda Staaf.

The investigation has subsequently met with sharp criticism, this also after the news that Mats Löfving was found dead in his home the same evening as the investigation was presented.

Now Viksten responds to the criticism:

– I don’t feel that I need to eat. It is the usual thinkers who now speak, but I welcome the discussion and will respond to all criticism, says Runar Viksten, in an interview with The Express.

He says that he understood that criticism would come, but that he is adamant that he carried out his mission in a good way and that there is nothing in the report that he cannot stand for.

– The main criticism seems to be that I presented the result during a press conference in the way I did, but there has been tremendous pressure from the media for two months, how else would I have presented it?, says Viksten, to the newspaper.

Emergency services and an ambulance have been alerted to a fire that broke out in a residence in Mörbylånga on Öland.

– It’s a cabin that’s on fire. When we arrived at the scene, there were open flames, so we had to start the extinguishing work from the outside, says Jesper Berglund, emergency operator at the rescue service.

There is no information that people have been injured in connection with the fire. According to the fire service’s forecast, it will take them two hours to extinguish the fire.

One person has died after being hit north of Timrå.

Relatives have been notified.

The police were alerted to the accident at 11.22.

– We are on site and working there now, says Marie Andersson, press spokesperson for police region North.

According to the emergency services, it is a pedestrian who has been hit.

– It is a person with a dog who has been hit by a car, says André Wadell, internal commander at the rescue service, to Sundsvall’s newspaper.

Later in the afternoon, the police announced that a person had been arrested after the accident.

Spain has detected its first suspected case of the Marburg virus, reports Reuters.

A 34-year-old man has been admitted for care and isolation at a private hospital in Valencia after he tested positive for the virus.

The virus is very deadly: Up to 88 percent of those infected die from the disease, according to the WHO.

Earlier in February, the WHO announced that cases of the virus had been detected in the Central African country of Equatorial Guinea, where 16 suspected cases have been detected and nine deaths reported.

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