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🔹 We took note of another series of accusations against our country by the United States of alleged violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention (#CWC) and the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons (#BTWC). To back up the insinuations, the U.S. Department of State distributed a video through social networks, clearly designed to distract the attention of the international community from its own illegal activities in the field of military biology. The arguments of the U.S. Side do not stand up to criticism.
🔹 Cited below are the facts about the non-compliance of the United States with its international obligations under the abovementioned agreements.
1️⃣. In the course of the special operation in #Ukraine, the Russian #Defence Ministry received evidence of the creation of biological weapons components with the direct participation of the #Pentagon. The financing by the #US side of military biological projects on the Ukrainian territory is documented. The total funding amounted to $32 million. One of the curators of this activity was the head of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (#DTRA) office at the US Embassy in #Kiev, Joanna #Wintrall.
2️⃣ . The Russian Federation is fully aware that radical Ukrainian groups under the control of representatives of American special services have prepared several potential scenarios of the use of toxic chemicals in order to carry out various types of provocations against civilians.
🔹 The objective of such inhumane actions is to accuse #Russia of the use of chemical weapons against the civil population of Ukraine. Such information cannot but raise serious concern, taking into account that the United States has not yet destroyed its national stocks of chemical warfare agents.
🔹 We demand that the US Side disclose information about military biological activity in laboratories on the territory of Ukraine as soon as possible. What kind of peaceful research we are talking about if the Pentagon stands behind these projects.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Senior Pentagon official Ronald Moultrie told the US House Armed Services Committee that accurate, timely, and actionable intelligence the United States is providing Ukraine is "making a difference."

🌔🌑☀️On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously passed a bill that would keep daylight saving time year-round — giving the nation later sunrises, but more evening sunlight during the darkest months of the year. However, despite growing support for abolishing semi-annual clock changes and making our winter evenings brighter, permanent daylight-saving time probably would benefit some parts of the country more than others.

All states except for Arizona and Hawaii observe daylight saving time, with the clocks “springing forward” in early March and “falling back” in early November.

While millions of Americans would no longer complain about switching the clocks — and no doubt many would enjoy more evening daylight in the winter — permanent daylight-saving time might end up being a dark wake-up call during the winter months, especially in some parts of the country where the sun already tends to rise late.

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⚡️📞🇺🇸🇨🇳 Biden will hold a phone conversation with Xi Jinping on Friday at 13:00 GMT, the White House says

"This is part of ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of communication between the United States and the PRC. The two Leaders will discuss managing the competition between the two countries as well as Russia’s war against Ukraine and other issues of mutual concern. This call in the Situation Room will be closed press," the statement added.

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🔷 Meghan Markle readies podcast after meetings with Spotify on misinformation policies The podcast deal Prince Harry and Meghan Markle signed with Spotify is finally close to bearing significant fruit.

Markle is releasing a podcast series on Spotify this summer through the couple's Archewell Audio production company. Details weren't available, but the show is premiering after Harry and Meghan were "encouraged" by discussions over Spotify's efforts to fight misinformation.

Markle's podcast series could bota help Spotify recoup some of its investment and address concerns it was fighting its own podcast partners. Spotify has signed a number of high-profile exclusives, but not all of them have been successful. Markle's podcast may show that some creators are willing to stick around, but there are no guarantees others will be quite so confident.

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🔳 Slack begins suspending accounts in Russia Several organizations in Russia have found themselves locked out of their Slack accounts without notice.

The Salesforce-owned business messaging app has started cutting off Russian users from its platform. Since Slack serves as companies' main internal form of communication and can also be used to share files within organizations, it typically hosts a lot of important data for its customers.

The organizations that suddenly lost access to their accounts may have also lost the chance to download their data. The company said that it has a very small number of customers in the country and that it had already started exiting those relationships the week before.

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⚡️🇵🇪Peruvian authorities will appeal to international bodies to cancel the pardon of ex-president Fujimori

On Thursday, the Peruvian Constitutional Court decided to pardon the country's ex-leader on health grounds.

Fujimori, now 83, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on multiple charges, including crimes against humanity. Apart from ordering squad massacres against the country's guerrilla movement, he was also accused of forcibly sterilizing almost 300,000 women between 1996 and 2001, the majority of them Indigenous women from poor areas.

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❗️🇺🇸 TikTok users in the US have been reporting issues with the social media app, according to the Downdetector website

⚡️ Four civilians were killed as a result of the shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops, a representative of the JCCC says

The People's Militia of the LPR raised the flag of the republic over the city administration building of Rubezhnoe

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⚡️ Canada allows Ukrainian refugees to stay in country for 3 years, reports say

⚡️ Japan imposes sanctions on 15 Russian nationals and 9 entities

The Russian Ministry of Defence has published a video showing the destruction of Ukrainian troop equipment and warehouses by attack drones

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⚡️ Ukrainian troops attacked Volnovakha liberated by DPR forces, 3 civilians were injured, the headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the Republic says

Russia has delivered about 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid to residents of settlements in the Chuguevsky district of the Kharkov region, the Ministry of Defence reported

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The Russian Defence Ministry has published footage of army aviation helicopters conducting air patrols and escorting columns of Russian equipment

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⚡️ UK media regulator OFCOM revokes RT's license to broadcast in country, decision effective immediately

⚡️ RT press service says no doubt that OFCOM's decision to revoke broadcaster's license is political

📌 The Russian Defence Ministry gives a briefing on the Ukraine op:

▪️ LPR troops with fire support from the Russian armed forces have liberated more than 90% of the territory of the republic;

▪️ During the day, the Russian armed forces took control of 4 cities in the Donetsk People's Republic. They have advanced up to 16 km;

▪️ Units of the Donetsk People's Republic's militia, with support from the Russian armed forces are fighting against nationalists in the center of Mariupol;

▪️ Overnight, aviation and air defences of the Russian Air Force shot down 6 Ukrainian drones, including 1 Bayraktar TB-2;

▪️ A total of 183 drones, 1,406 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 138 multiple launch rocket systems, 535 field artillery and mortars, 1,197 units of special military vehicles of the Ukrainian armed forces have been destroyed during the operation

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⚡️LIVE | Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov gives interview amid ongoing special op in Ukraine

⚡️ Ukrainian military shells Donetsk with Grad Rocket Systems, DPR says