▪️ The West is seeking to create conditions whereby a regime controlled by westerners in Russia can be established, as it has been worked out in a number of countries, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev says;

▪️ Ukraine has become an excuse for the West to wage an undeclared war against Russia, Patrushev says

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📹Footage of the combat work of Russia’s Tor-M2 anti-aircraft missile systems during a special military operation in Ukraine

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⚡️ Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov on the possibility of Russia's rejection of the Russia-NATO founding act: we will not give them such pleasure

❗Germany to 'intensify' military work with Sweden, Finland amid NATO bid: Scholz

⚡Finland's parliament approves country's accession to NATO, 188 out of 200 lawmakers support decision - voting results

Russia's President Putin reflects on the global market's situation:

▪Europe in the long run becomes a region with high energy prices;

▪What is happening around Ukraine is connected with the ill-conceived policy of the collective West, which ignored Russia's concerns and encouraged neo-Fascism;

▪Western countries speculate on people's concerns about climate change, overestimate the possibilities of alternative energy;

▪Western countries are trying to blame energy inflation on Russia, but this is the result of their systemic mistakes;

▪The EU commits economic suicide, refusing Russian energy resources;

▪Russian authorities must act proactively and turn the chaotic decisions of the West to their advantage

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❗️Biden to host Swedish Prime Minister and Finnish President at White House on Thursday to discuss countries' desire to join NATO - White House spokesperson

🎥⚔Russian MoD publishes footage of how on Saturday the Russian military stopped a Ukrainian army counterattack in the direction of Zaporozhye near Vyshnevoe.

Two Ukrainian mechanised battalions on tanks and infantry fighting vehicles went on the attack, but it was repelled. According to the Ministry of Defence, 26 retreating tanks and 12 infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed, and about 100 militants were killed.

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❗Kremlin says countries paying for Russian gas in rubles not suffering financially

⚡The Supreme Court of Russia will consider on 26 May the case of whether to recognise Ukraine's Azov battalion as a terrorist organisation

📹🎞 Residents of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk collect fragments after daily shelling. Juliya has shown one of them and said that many people are dying because of the shelling

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❗Italian oil and gas giant Eni opening account in Russia's Gazprombank for ruble transactions

❗️Assange's wife to file representations with Priti Patel to block his extradition to US

⚡️ Finland, Sweden will submit NATO membership bid Wednesday: Stockholm

❗US actively attracting Daesh members as mercenaries to participate in hostilities in Ukraine - Russian Foreign Intelligence

About 60 Daesh militants were released in April from prisons controlled by Syrian Kurds to be sent to Ukraine - Russian Foreign Intelligence