Nuland explains why US never pushed Ukraine into talks with Russia

Kiev’s “negotiating position” has never been strong enough amid the conflict, former US Deputy Secretary of State says.

“Let’s start with the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already failed in his objective. He wanted to flatten Ukraine. He wanted to ensure that they had no sovereignty, independence, agency, no democratic future – because a democratic Ukraine, a European Ukraine, is a threat to his model for Russia, among other things, and because it’s the first building block for his larger territorial ambitions,” Nuland asserted, without providing any supporting evidence.

The official insisted that Kiev can still “succeed” in the conflict, though she dodged the question of whether she believes Ukraine could seize its former territories from Russia, including the Crimean Peninsula, which broke away from Kiev in the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan coup and joined Moscow after a referendum.

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⚡️📣On location where a Ukrainian rocket attack destroyed 9 floors of an apartment building killing many civilians in Belgorod. Our friend Ian Turner
AKA "The Belgorod Brit from https://news.1rj.ru/str/infodefENGLAND" is reporting the only English report as of yet on location for our channel so you can see what the locals are living through. Ian is a British man and teacher that has been living in Belgorod for many years. He is showing us the real situation.

⚡️Rescuers heard voices under the rubble of a house in Belgorod

-Can anyone hear us?

-Shout louder!

-Can anyone hear us?

-There are voices!

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❗️ A court in St. Petersburg arrested Rakhmatshoh Kurbonov, the driver of the bus that fell into the Moika, until July 9.

He is accused of violating traffic rules, resulting in the death of more than two people through negligence. He faces up to 7 years in prison.

The accused pleads guilty to driving a bus with a faulty brake system.

An interpreter was present at the trial.

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Death toll climbs to seven at partially collapsed apartment building in Belgorod

Earlier reports said 10 people were missing and being searched for as a section of the building collapsed following a Ukrainian attack.

"Rescuers have recovered a seventh body from the rubble," the ministry said.

Before Russian Emergencies Ministry official told TASS that there were six bodies found.

Earlier reports said 10 people were missing and being searched for as a section of the building collapsed following a Ukrainian attack.

Belgorod and its suburbs came under massive shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces earlier on Sunday. Fragments of a downed Tochka U missile damaged a ten-story residential building, causing one of its sections to collapse. More than a dozen people, including children, have been injured in the attack.

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Battlegroup North liberates four settlements in Kharkov Region in past day

Russian air defenses also downed a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet.

"Units of Battlegroup North moved deeper into enemy defenses, liberating the settlements of Gatishche, Krasnoye, Morokhovets, and Oleinikovo in the Kharkov Region," the statement reads.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on May 11 that Battlegroup North had liberated the settlements of Borisovka, Ogurtsovo, Pletyonovka, Pylnaya and Strelechya in the Kharkov Region.

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German MPs want to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine

Incoming drones and projectiles could be targeted from Poland and Romania, lawmakers have said.

German lawmakers from both the ruling coalition and the opposition support the idea of NATO imposing a no-fly zone over western Ukraine amid the conflict with Russia, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) has reported.

For its article on Saturday, the paper asked members of parliament about the proposal, earlier floated by the defense minister’s chief of staff, Nico Lange, who suggested that Russian missiles and drones targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure and military installations could be shot down from the territory of neighboring Poland and Romania.

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Peskov's statements:

👁 Belousov was appointed as the new Minister of Defense;

👁 Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov will continue his activities;

👁 Putin decided that the Russian Ministry of Defense should be headed by a civilian; the department should be open to innovation and advanced ideas;

👁 Shoigu will oversee the work of the FSMTC (Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation) of Russia, will continue to work in the field that he knows from the inside

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