Apparently, the Ukrainian president has asked Johnson to supply more weapons to Kiev. This time around, he's requested heavy weaponry and air defence systems, according to Zelensky's office.

⚡️ Americans 'shouldn't be going to Ukraine', Biden says after being briefed on 'missing US nationals'

⚡️Putin says Russia has nothing against Ukraine joining EU: 'It's not a military bloc'

❗️Putin has made additional statements at the SPIEF:

▪️ In 2014, the US should have called for elections in Ukraine instead of supporting the coup;

▪️Washington began to create an anti-Russian foothold out of Ukraine. He wondered how the American side would react if Russia were to create an anti-US foothold near its borders, and stressed that Moscow had even removed its military base from Cuba to defuse tensions;

▪️ Russia will respect any choice of the residents of the liberated territories in Ukraine: only they will decide their own fate;

▪️ Russia does not threaten anyone with nuclear weapons;

▪️ Warfare is always a tragedy, but this is a forced measure: Russia was pushed to start the op;

▪️ Ukrainian attacks on residential areas in Donetsk are a crime against humanity;

▪️ Storming Ukrainian fortified areas in Donetsk from where they hit residential areas has no purpose;

▪️ Russia will support the Donbass people.

🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) explains the reasons for the current global economic crisis, stressing that it is linked to poor Western policies rather than Russia's special operation in Ukraine.

🎥 The All-Russia People's Front delivered humanitarian aid to residents of Svetlodarsk and Mironovsky.

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🇺🇦🎤Ukraine disagrees with the decision of the Eurovision organizers not to stage the contest in the country this year and demands additional negotiations on the matter, Ukrainian Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko says.

🇬🇧 In the meantime, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that the UK would be ready to hold the song contest if chosen to be the host country, pledging to reflect the Ukrainian culture as much as possible, Sky News reports.

🎥 A Mariupol resident reveals how Azov Batallion neo-Nazis treated them.

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⚡️An RT correspondent has released a video featuring Alexander Drueke, one of the American mercenaries who are believed to have been captured near Kharkov.

🎥 "Only a miracle saved us": A family from Mariupol recalls Ukrainian shelling.

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❗️ US lifts sanctions on former high-ranking official at Venezuela's PDVSA, Carlos Erik Malpica-Flores - Treasury

🫣"Putin’s Price Hike" no more? Nancy Pelosi, as lucid as always, is now blaming skyrocketing prices on COVID and the “war in Iraq”.

😔Three people were killed, and a woman was injured during a shooting at an Alabama church Thursday evening, police report.

Police said at a news conference Friday that the suspect, a 71-year-old man who occasionally attended services, acted alone and is now in custody. Police Capt. Shane Ware did not identify the man by name.

The Vestavia Hills Police Department said the man walked in alone to a small gathering at St. Stephens Episcopal Church in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills, Alabama. The church was hosting a "Boomers Potluck" from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. EDT. Police were dispatched around 6:22 p.m. to an active shooter call at the church building.

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🔻😷The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 27,112 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the state, including 68 deaths, since last Friday.

The CDC says 25 Illinois counties are rated at a "high community level" for COVID-19. Thirty-nine counties are now rated at "medium community level." Cook, DuPage, Kane, and Lake counties are among those to drop to "medium community level."

IDPH is reporting a total of 3,380,095 cases, including 33,994 deaths, in 102 counties since the beginning of the pandemic.

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