❗️ Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov gives interview to Serbian press

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❗️ The West will always find a reason for sanctions, their goal is to restrain the development of Russia, Lavrov says

❗️ Putin has never turned down a meeting with Zelensky, but now a meeting to exchange views would be counterproductive, Lavrov says

⚡️ Lavrov says West doesn't care a bit about sovereign rights of other countries

⚡️ Kremlin: Biden's remarks about Putin cause concern

😳 ⚡️ 📹 Kiev's security forces covered up traces of a secret prison at the Mariupol airport, including digging up dead prisoners, former Lieutenant Colonel of the Security Council of Ukraine Prozorov says

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❗️ Key points from Kremlin spokesperson Peskov's press conference:

▪️ Biden's latest statement about Putin is alarming, Russia will continue to monitor and carefully record such statements.

▪️ There will be no meeting between Putin and Zelensky after the meeting of delegations in Istanbul.

▪️ A conversation between Putin and Macron today or tomorrow is not in the schedule, but if necessary, could take place.

▪️ Peskov on Germany's plans to reject buying oil from Russia: Some European volume will fall, but in general it will be compensated for by applications from the East.

▪️ The Kremlin saw footage, where alleged Ukrainian soldiers are torturing Russian soldiers, the Investigative Committee will provide a legal assessment of it.

▪️ The main thing in Nagorno-Karabakh is to ensure the implementation of the ceasefire regime by all parties.

▪️Peskov on Roskomnadzor's warning about Zelensky's interview: It is important not to publish information that would violate the laws of Russia.

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⚡️ Kremlin vows to hold accountable those responsible for torturing Russian troops

📹 Footage depicting the consequences of today's artillery shelling of the central portion of Donetsk by the Ukrainian security forces

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⚡️📹 A RIA Novosti correspondent is reporting from the Mariupol airport

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⚡️ North Macedonia declares five Russian diplomats persona non grata

🇺🇸 🇯🇵 Russian Ambassador to Japan Mikhail Galuzin said on Monday that the Japanese government should address its statements on the inadmissibility of the use of nuclear weapons to Washington.

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⚡️ Russia expels three Slovak diplomats in tit-for-tat step

⚡️ German energy minister says Group of Seven countries reject Russia's demand to pay for Russian energy imports in rubles

📍 Retired senior US diplomat Chas Freeman has claimed that America is waging an undeclared war with Russia in Ukraine "to the last Ukrainian" in order to maintain its hegemony in the world.

"It's US-Russia. It's not Russia versus Europe", he asserted. According to the retired diplomat, the current situation is playing into the hands of the US.

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▪️ The goal of the United States is to weaken Europe and cause maximum damage to its relations with Russia, creating undeniable advantages for its development, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Monday.

"The goal of the Americans, as in the Second World War, is obvious — to weaken Europe and cause maximum damage to its relations with Russia, creating undeniable advantages for its further economic development. The most odious and tragic example of Washington's destructive policy was Ukraine, which has been programmed in an anti-Russian vein for 30 years since gaining independence", Patrushev said.

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⚡️WATCH: the aftermath of the bombing of a Mariupol theatre by Azov neo-Nazis

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❗️ Pentagon: Six US naval aircraft and 240 maintainers deploying to Germany to boost NATO readiness

❗️ Moscow slams expulsion of five Russian diplomats from North Macedonia as 'unfriendly step', vows to retaliate

💵 What's in US President Joe Biden's 2023 budget proposal?

▪️ $682mln in Ukraine assistance, which is $219mln more than in 2021

▪️$6.9bn for the European deterrence initiative, NATO, & countering 'Russian aggression'

▪️nearly $1.8bn to support a 'free, open' Indo-Pacific region

▪️$400mln for the countering China’s 'malign influence' fund

▪️$773bn for the Pentagon

▪️$223mln to support development of commercial space stations

▪️ a new 20% minimum tax will be imposed on billionaires

▪️$10.6bn to 'bolster US leadership' in addressing global health security challenges

▪️$11bn in international climate financing

⚡️Russian MoD: Ukrainian Mi-8 heading to Mariupol to evacuate Azov battalion leaders shot down