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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Dozens of people have gathered in Los Angeles near where the Summit of the Americas is taking place to protest against Washington's decision not to invite Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua to participate in the event, a Sputnik correspondent reports. The protesters also demand an end to the blockade of Cuba.

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❗Biden says 'must do more - and quickly' to lower US prices

Biden claims forces behind US Capitol riot 'remain at work today'

❗US Army base in Germany confirms first monkeypox case in American military

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Russian MoD delivers briefing on Ukraine op:

▪Kiev intends to place air defence systems at the burial site of plague victims in Odessa and accuse Russia of a bio provocation in the event of a strike on these complexes;

▪The Ukrainian military has deployed weapons and equipment in DPR schools and set up HQs at a furniture factory in Kramatorsk;

▪Russian forces have demined almost 25 hectares of land in Donbass over the past 24 hours;

▪Ukrainian militants fire at Russian forces from residential areas in order to blame the Russian side for any consequences of "indiscriminate strikes";

▪21,632 people have been evacuated to Russia from dangerous areas in Ukraine and Donbass without Kiev's assistance

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🇺🇸🛢 President Biden lashed out at big oil after economic data showed US inflation rising at its fastest pace in 40 years. "Exxon made more money than God this year," Biden said.

🇺🇸🇸🇦The Biden administration is planning a "full reset" in US relations with Saudi Arabia and is ready to move on from the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, CNN reported citing officials.

President Joe Biden is willing to set aside moral outrage because of the dramatic need to boost oil production, the report said.

✈️ US lifts COVID-19 test requirement for international travel

The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international travelers test negative for COVID-19 within a day before boarding a flight to the United States, ending one of the last remaining government mandates designed to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Airline and tourism groups have been pressing the administration for months to eliminate the testing requirement, saying it discourages people from booking international trips because they could be stranded overseas if they contract the virus on their trip.

While domestic US travel has returned nearly to pre-pandemic levels, international travel — which is very lucrative for the airlines — has continued to lag. In May, US international air travel remained 24% below 2019 levels, with declines among both US and foreign citizens, according to trade group Airlines for America.

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