📍 The leaders of the Quad grouping — Australia, India, Japan, and the US— have vowed to intensify cooperation in dealing with climate change as well as maritime domain awareness, with a particular focus on the Pacific Island nations.

▪️ US President Joe Biden said that that the Quad’s importance has been “heightened” by the conflict in Ukraine.

🗯“The fact of the matter is that we have a lot of work to do keeping this region peaceful and stable, tackling this pandemic and the next one and addressing climate crisis as referenced by our new colleague (Albanese), ensuring that the technologies of the future are governed according to our values,” President Biden stated.

▪️ As per a “fact sheet” by the White House, the four nations will “broaden and elevate” their cooperation on climate change in the coming months by holding regular meetings of the transport and energy ministers of the four nations.

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⚡️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have hit three command posts, 36 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration, one self-propelled artillery division of the 14th Mechanized Brigade near Soledar, as well as six ammunition depots in Minkovka, Bakhmut, Nikolaevka, Spornoe and Krasnyi Liman in the DPR, including a large depot of 155 mm shells for US M-777 howitzers in Razdolovka over the past day using high-precision air-based missiles.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit two command posts, three ammunition depots, 80 areas of Ukrainian troop and military equipment concentration, as well as a Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system near Pilipchatino in the DPR.

▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 84 command posts, 463 areas where Ukrainian troops and military equipment were concentrated, as well as 137 artillery and mortar units at firing positions.

▪️ Russian air defence units have shot down five unmanned aerial vehicles in Chernobaevka in Kherson Region, Dibrovnoe, Kamenka, Pitomnik and Malye Prokhody in Kharkov Region.

▪️ Some 178 Ukrainian aircraft and 125 helicopters, 995 unmanned aerial vehicles, 320 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,243 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 425 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,658 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,124 special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.

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⚡️ Donbas doctors say ICRC, WHO ceased to supply HIV, tuberculosis treatment

📹 Residents of the liberated DPR village describe the atrocities committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine

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‼️ "Since 2015, the treatment of tuberculosis patients of all categories has been carried out exclusively through the supply of anti-tuberculosis drugs ... coming from humanitarian supplies through the ICRC. In 2022, there were no deliveries of anti-tuberculosis drugs," one of the letters to the LPR health chief said

📹 The Russian MoD has published a video showing the moment Ukrainian military facilities were destroyed by "Msta-B" howitzers

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⚡️ 📹 A boy from the DPR tells how soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine forced children to conduct reconnaissance in their hunt for Russian troops; those who disagreed were threatened with death

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⚡️ Ukraine 'preferred to forget' about Russia's settlement plan, Dmitry Medvedev says

❗️ Kremlin Press Secretary Peskov on Time's world leader publication: The magazine has seen better times, there is a lot that is unclear there

⚡️ Russian Defence Minister Shoigu warns of threat of Ukrainian nuclear weapons development

❗️ Russian Defence Minister Shoigu on the situation in Ukraine:

▪️ Russia slows down offensive in Ukraine to evacuate civilians

▪️West organised the supply of lethal weapons, fearing the defeat of Ukrainian troops

▪️ Russia will continue the special operation, despite the West’s support of Ukraine

▪️ NATO turned Ukraine into a pressure instrument against Russia

▪️ Shoigu warns of threat of Ukrainian nuclear weapons development

▪️ Collective security in the east of Europe has worsened because of the West

▪️ The release of criminals and the distribution of weapons in Ukraine led to rampant crime

📹 A man whose place of residence was damaged by the Azov Battalion tells a story about how the Ukrainian military prevented civilians from putting out a fire and saving their property from a burning house by firing at the doors and windows of the burning building

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📡 MISiS University is working on the safest communication method!

👨‍🔬 Russian scientists have developed an algorithm that improves photon detection efficiency in quantum key distribution (QKD) systems.

🤝 Employees of the NTI Centre for Quantum Communications at the National University of Science and Technology MISiS believe that the key to properly solving the problems of quantum technology is the versatility of scientists, who act alternately as engineers, software developers, laboratory technicians, and mathematical modelling theorists.

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🇯🇵 President Joe Biden's controversial statement that Washington would defend Taiwan “militarily” in the event of Beijing attempting to re-unify with the self-governed Chinese province “marks a shift” in US’ policy, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told Indian news broadcaster WION.

▪️ The Indian channel's interview with Abe is yet to be aired, but Abe’s response to the question on Taiwan was shared in a social media post.

▪️ The former Japanese PM also said that Biden's remark on Taiwan was "intentional".

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⚡️ Russian, Chinese strategic bombers complete 13-hour-long patrol over Sea of Japan, East China Sea

🤔 President Joe Biden has argued that the current record-high gas prices in his country are part of America’s major transition from fossil fuels.

🗣 “Here’s the situation. And when it comes to gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over,” he said during a joint press conference with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday.

🥴 POTUS then insisted that his administration’s actions helped “keep it [the gas prices] from getting worse — and it’s bad”.

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📹 Russian Tupolev Tu-95MS (NATO reporting name: Bear) and Chinese Xian H-6 strategic bombers have successfully completed the 13-hour-long patrol during which the aircraft crossed over parts of the Sea of Japan (also known as East Sea) and the East China Sea. The Russian and Chinese bombers were covered along their path by Russia Air Force 4+ generation fighter jets Sukhoi Su-30SM (NATO reporting name: Flanker-H).

The Russian MoD stressed that the patrolling was not conducted against any specific state and was carried out in full accordance with international laws.

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❤️ 📹 Caring residents of Russia, with the support of the People's Militia of the DPR, delivered humanitarian aid to the city hospital No. 20 in Donetsk.

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📹 A resident of the territory where hostilities were fought, tells how Ukrainian troops shelled his house and fired at the settlement.

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📹 “They fired from the Ukrainian side. Everyone knows this,” Danil says about how shells from Ukrainian militants flew into his house and neighboring buildings.

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📹 A resident of Sladkoye said that Ukraine used incendiary shells to fire at the homes of civilians.

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