🇺🇸 😂 SANCTION BROS are at it again as US slaps sanctions on head of Wagner Private Military Company in Mali Ivan Maslov for allegedly "attempting to obscure its efforts to acquire military equipment for use in Ukraine", adding that "Wagner Group’s presence on the African continent is a destabilizing force."

Washington claims Wagner's using "false paperwork" to transit weapons for use in Ukraine through West African nation, insisting group is "attempting to purchase military systems from foreign suppliers".

Waiting on America to start sanctioning Russian cats and dogs when they run out of people. 🙀

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🇨🇿🇺🇦Top Czech military official wants to prepare for "bad scenario" for Ukrainian counteroffensive.

🗣The outcome of the war depends not only on tanks and armored personnel carriers. There are too many unknowns here. Personally, I believe that we should prepare for a bad scenario - a long war - Chief of General Staff of Czech Military Rehka

Rehka says "Russians believe that time is on their side. We have to show that they are wrong.”

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⚡️💻🇨🇳🇺🇸Officials claim US navy hit by "Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Volt Typhoon."

Secretary of Navy Carlos Del Toro says navy "has been impacted” by the cyberattacks, adding that “no surprise that China has been behaving in this manner, not just for the last couple years, but for decades."

Microsoft says it has "moderate confidence" breach carried out in preparation for future crisis.

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😄NOWHERE SAFE for Ukrainian equipment as even warehouses become an easy target for Russian Lancet kamikaze drones which hit enemy's Osa ("Wasp") air defense system, breaching warehouse roof and damaging the system.

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🇩🇪🇷🇺🇧🇾 Germany says transfer of Russian nukes to Belarus "wrong move."

🗣Transfer of Russian tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus is yet another prosaic attempt at Russian nuclear intimidation that we strongly reject - Deputy Spokesperson of German government Buchner.

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🇨🇳🇺🇦🇷🇺Western officials say Chinese special envoy Li Hui urges Europe to "quickly to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine before it spreads."

🗣We explained that freezing the conflict is not in the interest of the international community unless there is withdrawal of Russian troops, it’s impossible to split Europe from America - Western diplomats.

🤡Ah yes, West rejecting peace initiatives.

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🇸🇪🇹🇷🇫🇲 As Turkey continues to block Sweden’s entry into NATO, Stockholm says Ankara making impossible demands.

Turkey wants Sweden to hand over 120 individuals affiliated with Kurdish insurgency but Swedish officials say "Sweden has neither received a list of names from Turkey, nor is it aware of who the individuals might be, making Erdogan’s (Turkish Prez) demands impossible to meet."

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🇷🇺☢🇺🇦 Kiev may arrange provocation at Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ex-Ukraine) and blame Russia for it to stop work of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission at plant - Zaporozhye Official Rogov.

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🏳️‍🌈🌈🇺🇦Zelensky responds to petition to legalize partnerships for same-sex couples in Ukraine.

Ukrainian Justice Ministry working on legislative introduction of institution of civil partnership while Zelensky addresses Ukrainian Parliament with proposal to consider bills on legalization of partnerships for same-sex couples.

🤡As his people die for NATO's ambitions, Zelensky's got his priorities sorted. Is this the counteroffensive?

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🇷🇺 ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE? Cause this Russian tank ain’t stopping to wait for anyone as it unleashes shells directly at Ukrainian army positions, the guttural roar of its cannon drowning out terrified wails of Kiev troops as they're caught in earth-shaking blasts (00:27).

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💻🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳US has new cyber strategy that draws lesson from Ukrainian conflict.

US Department of Defense's "DoD 2023 Cyber Strategy" says Russia poses "an acute threat in cyberspace" while China has "has made significant investments in military cyber capabilities and empowered a number of proxy organizations to pursue malicious cyber activities against the United States."

Washington says "North Korea, Iran, and Violent Extremist Organizations remain persistent cyber threats."

🤡Who's gonna protect Americans from all the spying their government does on them?

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💥BETTER TAKE COVER because it's about to rain metal as Russian tank opens up on Ukrainian army positions in Avdeevka, Donetsk Republic, dropping shell after shell on enemies, reducing their positions to smoke puffs.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺Ukraine's Security Service Chief Malyuk calls Crimean Bridge "logistic route" that they "were obliged to cut" in reference to Kiev's terror attack on Russia's Crimean Bridge last year.

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