⚡️ US arms sales to Taiwan undermine China's security interests, Chinese Defence Minister Tells Pentagon Chief - TV

⚡️ NATO Chief to visit Finland, Sweden on June 12-13

⚡️ One killed, six wounded in Ukrainian shelling of Makeevka

Humanitarian aid has been given to the nuns of the St Nicholas Monastery and the civilians who are taking refuge in it: footage from the DPR's Nikolskoye settlement (its name was changed back to Volodarskoe on 4 May)

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Severodonetsk resident in the LPR tells reporter about Ukrainian servicemen looting shops and shelling streets of the city

Donbass hospitals need a bit more than mere medication to keep the patients comfortable. A refrigerator, kettles and microwave ovens have been transported from Russia to the Republican Trauma Centre of Donetsk.

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⚡US inflation jumps to 8.6% in May, the highest since 1981

⚡Explosion heard in center of Donetsk near DPR head's office - Sputnik correspondent

🎥A video from the scene of the incident has emerged online

📹🎞 A resident of Rubezhnoye talks about how a Ukrainian sniper killed her husband and she was then forced to bury him under shelling

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Moscow: Britons sentenced to death in DPR are mercenaries, not war prisoners

"Their goal was to destroy the city": a resident in the LPR's Severodonetsk tells about the shelling by Ukrainians

London's reaction to death sentence for British mercs in DPR is close to hysterical, Russian Foreign Ministry says

❗US official: Biden lifting pre-departure COVID-19 testing requirement for international travelers to US effective Sunday

🎤The US Recording Academy has announced five new Grammy categories to be in place starting from the 2023 awards:

🔹Best songwriter (can be awarded only to non-performing and non-producing songwriters, i.e. those who are credited solely as a writer or co-writer);
🔹Best performances in the alternative and US genres;
🔹Best video game soundtrack;
🔹Best poetry album.

❗Pope Francis, European Commission president discuss Ukraine, food crisis - Vatican

Sputnik footage shows the site of the explosion near the DPR head office in the centre of Donetsk

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LPR hospitals have received about five tons of medical supplies from the Akhmad Kadyrov Foundation (named after the former Chechen leader and father of Ramzan Kadyrov)

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"These are not their children and this is not their land": Mariupol resident describes the logic of Ukrainian fascists as to why they committed crimes in the city

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❗President Vucic says Germany’s Scholz demanded Serbia joined anti-Russia sanctions

❗A US State Department official has acknowledged that anti-Russia sanctions have a negative impact on the economy of the US and European countries

In a virtual conversation hosted by the Atlantic Council, Erik Woodhouse, deputy assistant secretary of state for counter threat finance and sanctions, said that "the US, allies and partners understood that there will be costs" in regards to the question of sanctions against Russia.

While the US has "less acute dependence" on Russia's energy resources, Europe is "doing the hard work... it's the right direction to go", Woodhouse noted. "We applaud them for that", the official said.

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