The Finnish Foreign Ministry began an investigation into the prank of Vladimir Kuznetsov (Vovan) and Alexey Stolyarov (Lexus) with the participation of the head of the foreign policy department, Elina Valtonen.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is investigating a fraud in which Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen made a video call with a person who was not the same person in the video. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is strengthening its procedures to avoid similar situations in the future," the department said in a statement.

It is clarified that the investigation began almost half a day after the Russian media reported about the prank. The ministry stressed that the video call was ordinary and did not arouse suspicion. During the conversation, Valtonen revealed Finland's public position and views on current issues. The department noted that “discussions on these platforms do not concern confidential or classified information.”
Today, in the first half of the day, Finnish media, with reference to Russian ones, reported Valtonen’s participation in the prank of Vovan and Lexus, who called the minister on behalf of one of the African politicians. Later there was a reaction from the Finnish Foreign Ministry, which announced the start of an investigation.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Footage of yesterday's attack on a high-rise building in Gaza filmed by an Israeli reconnaissance UAV.

Russian electricity ten times cheaper than in UK – banker

Low energy prices make Russian industry more competitive than its European rivals, a Sber official has said

Electricity costs for Russian consumers are nearly ten times lower than in the UK, and are roughly four times less than in the EU, a leading banker stated on Wednesday, referring to prices for households and businesses.

Anatoly Popov, deputy chairman of the board of Russia’s largest lender, Sber, was speaking at the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow.

“Electricity is cheap in Russia. If you take the price in Russia and the price that British industries pay, I do not know if there is any industry left with such prices, but the price is almost ten times lower in Russia than in the UK. In the EU, the prices for industrial consumers are four times higher per kilowatt/hour, and for households also 4-4.5 times higher,” Popov explained.

According to the British government website, floor unit prices for electricity for households averaged £0.34 ($0.41) per kWh over the past year. Russian consumers pay on average $0.04 per kWh

The Sber executive also cited the US, saying that electricity prices there are only twice as high as they are in Russia, thanks to the country’s oil and gas reserves and a policy aimed at ensuring energy independence.

The price gap helps make the Russian economy more competitive, according to Popov.

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A Sputnik journalist was injured in a drone strike near Belgorod and his daughter was killed.

Sputnik journalist Khaibar Akifi and his wife were wounded in a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone strike near Belgorod, and their four-year-old daughter was killed, said Dmitry Kiselev, general director of the Rossiya Segodnya media group.
“As a result of a Ukrainian drone strike, our employee, 29-year-old Khaibar Akifi, who works in the Afghan editorial office of Sputnik, and his Russian wife Olesya, was seriously injured and is in intensive care. A huge tragedy occurred: she lost her parents, and the family lost a child: their four-year-old daughter died Amina," he said.

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British banks have begun to prepare for possible sanctions against China

Major UK banks have begun preparing for the possible introduction of Western sanctions against China and have provided the British and American governments with a draft action plan for such an eventuality.

This was reported by Reuters with reference to Neil Willey, director of sanctions at the banking and financial association UK Finance.

UK Finance organized fortnightly meetings of major British and foreign banks for several months to draw up the project, Willey said. He says the document includes sharing lessons learned from the imposition of Western sanctions, including on Russia, and discussing the consequences that any restrictions on China could entail.

After many companies were baffled by the speed and scale of sanctions against Russia, banks have decided to put plans in place if geopolitical tensions between the West and China escalate, seven financial industry sources told Reuters .

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🇷🇺🇺🇳⚡️The Russian Armed Forces have already switched to active combat operations on almost the entire front for several days, the Ukrainian counter-offensive is over - Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Nebenzya

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According to a survey by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), more than 78% of Russian citizens trust Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“78.3% of respondents answered positively to the direct question about trust in Vladimir Putin,” the report says.

In addition, according to the survey results, 74.9% of Russian citizens approve of the activities of the Russian President.

Earlier it became known that 74% of Russians believe that Putin will ensure stability and development of Russia.

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“There was control, I’m still a migrant” - Readovka’s exclusive interview with a native of Donbass, who collected information for the Russian army at the Ukrainian border service

Ruslan Syrovoy served in the Ukrainian border service for 13 years, in recent years in the Mukachevo detachment, where they tried to closely monitor him as a migrant from the Lugansk region. Nevertheless, he, the head of the cybersecurity department, managed, according to him, to collect and transmit valuable information to Russia. Some time ago, he “evacuated” to Moscow through Europe and Turkey and intends to continue working for the benefit of our country, now with Russian citizenship.

Readovka met with Ruslan at the first opportunity and talked about Ukraine, service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, attitude towards Donbass, the Russian language and much more. He spoke a lot about what happened last spring in the areas of the LPR occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and about the established tariffs for the departure of Ukrainian men across the western border - more details in the interview.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Indicators show a further decline in Internet connectivity in the Gaza Strip amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes. Local media claim Israel's communications minister plans to cut off Internet services to Gaza at midnight

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 JUST IN: Israel bombs a civilian convoy that was evacuating out of Gaza city, on the road they promised not to bomb

At least 70 killed and 200 injured.

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🩸TERRIFIED CHILD COVERED IN BLOOD in above video, among injured and dazed victims of latest Israeli BOMBS car convoy, killing 70 and injuring more than 200 displaced people in Gaza doing exactly what Israel told them to do, desperately fleeing to desperate attempts at safety ahead of incoming Israeli shelling.

Israel threatened Gazans with leaflets, forcing them to go south, now they bomb those innocent, fleeing civilians anyway!

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