⚡️ Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are currently in Ukraine, the RaiNews24 broadcaster reported on Thursday

🆙 The number of illegal migrants apprehended on the US southern border hit a third-consecutive monthly high record in May, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data revealed.

▪️ The data showed on Wednesday that Border Patrol agents apprehended 239,416 illegal migrants on the US southern border in May.

▪️ Illegal migration on the US southern border has hit record high numbers under the Biden administration. According to CBP records dating back to 2000, the Biden administration witnessed a 20-year record high of 1.7 million illegal migrants apprehended on the southern border in 2021.

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⚡️ Kremlin spokesman Peskov on Moscow's assessment of President Biden: Russia will never stoop to unflattering assessments of the leaders of other countries; it's up to US citizens to make these calls

⚡️ Peskov: Russia and the United States will have to discuss arms control, disarmament issues and non-proliferation issues, but not now

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⚡️ Peskov: Washington has never before introduced such tough sanctions against Russia or any other country, even during the Cold War

⚡️ Russia’s MFA: Russia isn't considering withdrawal from the WTO - no matter how difficult it is in the WTO, Moscow will not slam the door

⚡️ Peskov on the possibility of large-scale economic measures against the United States: Carpet bombing is not good anywhere, Russia uses high-precision weapons in all areas

⚡️⚡️ A decision on the execution of English and Moroccan mercenaries in the DPR can be made no earlier than in a month, DPR head Denis Pushilin says

⚡️ Donetsk hit by series of powerful explosions

📹 Watch how Gorlovka residents came under Ukrainian Armed Forces fire during an interview.

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

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed two AFU command posts, one electronic warfare station, one Tochka-U missile launcher and one Uragan multiple rocket launcher in Kharkov region using high-precision air-based missiles.

▪️ Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aviation have hit 57 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.

▪️ Russian air defence units have shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 warplane near Mazanovka, Kharkov region.

▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 195 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, 34 command posts and 42 firing positions of AFU artillery units.

▪️ Missile troops and artillery have destroyed more than 200 combatants, one electronic warfare station, three ammunition depots, six tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, a Grad multiple rocket launcher, four field artillery guns, 18 special vehicles and two UAV control points in Nikolayev region.

▪️ Some 204 Ukrainian airplanes and 131 helicopters, 1,218 unmanned aerial vehicles, 340 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,569 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 526 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,968 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,647 special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.

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📹 Ukrainian occupiers threw people into prison for having Russian numbers in their mobile phones.

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⚡️ Further problems with repair of Nord Stream turbines may lead to its shutdown, it will be disaster for Germany - Russian envoy Chizhov to Sputnik

📹 Ukrainian nationalists left behind scorched earth in Kremennaya. As they left, the AFU fighters burned down a building stocked with humanitarian aid, while there were still civilians inside.

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🎙 Beyonce’s seventh album Renaissance will be released on 29 July, the musician has announced on her social media accounts and streaming platforms.

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🎥 "We lived through a nightmare out there": Many foreign mercenaries remain at the Severodonetsk Azot Plant, said a woman who recently managed to escape from the plant's bomb shelter.

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⚡️ Russia has warned Turkey that new Syria op would lead to more violence, may prompt separatism

❗️ Kremlin spokesman Peskov on the situation in Ukraine:

▪️ Moscow does not have information concerning alleged US soldiers captured by the Russian military in Ukraine;

▪️ The Kremlin is aware of Ukrainian politicians' threats regarding the Crimean bridge, they have been taken into consideration;

▪️ Crimea's security is preventively guaranteed by the Russian military;

▪️ The continuation of negotiations with Ukraine is tough: they are halted;

▪️ Moscow will welcome any recognition of the DPR and LPR by other countries, especially Syria;

▪️ The Kremlin hopes that Macron, Draghi and Scholz will not focus on pumping Ukraine with weapons during their visit to Kiev: this will extend people's suffering;

▪️ The Kremlin hopes that Macron, Draghi and Scholz will encourage Zelensky to look at the situation objectively.

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Ghislaine Maxwell faced a “credible death threat” from a fellow inmate who plotted to ‘strangle her in her sleep’, her defence lawyer has claimed.

The allegation came in a court filing aimed at lightening Maxwell’s sex trafficking sentence for procuring young women for Jeffrey Epstein.

🗣 “(One) of the female inmates in Ms Maxwell’s housing unit told at least three other inmates that she had been offered money to murder Ms Maxwell and that she planned to strangle her in her sleep,” her defence lawyer said in the filing.

The inmate allegedly claimed that "an additional 20 years incarceration would be worth the money she'd receive for murdering Ms Maxwell".

Maxwell's lawyer also argued that she should be sentenced to “well below” the 20-year imprisonment probation authorities recommended in her New York sex-trafficking case.

🌌 For the fist time, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spoted a white dwarf star ripping up its planetary system.

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