Today is Friday, May 13th, and your listening to the Morning Announcements presented by

Betches Media, on Sammy Sage.

Finland's leaders announced yesterday that they will seek to join NATO immediately, while

Sweden is strongly considering a similar move.

In response, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that they would have to take retaliatory

steps.

Yeah, obviously, which is why they're joining NATO to begin with.

Meanwhile, the UN Human Rights Council voted to start a probe into alleged abuses of human

rights and serious violation of international humanitarian law by Russian troops in Ukraine.

Only two countries, China and Aritria, voted against starting the probe.

So far, they have found over 1,000 civilian bodies that had been killed by Russia's use

of explosive weapons.

We also have an update on that, will there won't they question around the EU cutting

off its dependence on Russian oil?

The EU needs to unanimously vote to ban imports of Russian oil, but Hungary's Prime Minister

Viktor Orbán is the one vote who potentially stands in the way of that.

Orbán has shown quite an affinity for Putin and his regime, and has pursued many of the

same goals of suppressing journalists, artists, and the LGBTQ population.

It's just like they say, birds of a bigoted feather stay addicted to oil forever.

We reported a few weeks ago about the national shortage of baby formula, which is only getting

worse.

In response, President Biden spoke with leading manufacturers and retailers yesterday about

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