📹 A Ukrainian army soldier complains that the “Russian world” bombed a grain elevator.

🤔 Nevertheless, in the video one can clearly see Ukrainian military equipment at the territory of the grain elevator.

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❗️ Russian MoD latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have neutralized a temporary deployment point of mercenaries from the so-called Ukrainian "Foreign Legion" in the DPR using high-precision air-based missiles.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed up to 60 nationalists, two multiple rocket launchers and four artillery mounts using a high-precision long-range air-based weaponry strike on the temporary deployment point of a battalion of the AFU’s 118th Territorial Defence Brigade.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have hit 14 command posts.

▪️ Russian air defense units have shot down six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in Kharkov Region, in Kherson Region and in the DPR.

▪️ Some 257 Ukrainian airplanes and 142 helicopters, 1,564 unmanned aerial vehicles, 356 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,099 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 759 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,157 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,392 special military vehicles have been destroyed during the operation.

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🙅‍♂️ Sen. Ted Cruz argued that the US Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage was “clearly wrong” - while discussing the possibility of its reversal.

🗯 “So look, Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation’s history,” the Texas Republican said on his show, “Verdict with Ted Cruz” Saturday. “Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.”

▪️ Cruz was referencing Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark decision that guaranteed the right to same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015.

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🇹🇷 🇺🇸The chairman of the Turkish Patriotic Party (Vatan), which is not represented in the Turkish parliament, Dogu Perincek, on Monday urged the country's authorities to revoke the request for the purchase of US F-16 fighter jets.

▪️ On Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act constraining the impending transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. The amendment requires assurances on behalf of the US president that the aircraft will not be used for unauthorized territorial overflights in Greece.

🗯 "The persistence in buying F-16s from the US/NATO, which is threatening our country, runs counter to our national pride and interests. The policy 'you did not give us our F-35s, at least sell us the F-16s' has failed. No one has the right to put our state in this position," Perincek was quoted as saying by Turkish newspaper Aydınlık.

▪️ He also noted that it is NATO that poses a threat to Turkey from Greece, the eastern Mediterranean, Syria and northern Iraq, therefore no threat from Ankara should have been expected.

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❗️EU Council approved $500 million military assistance package for Ukraine.

⚡️ EU wants to double gas deliveries from Azerbaijan within 'a few years': Von der Leyen

⚡️ Putin: Russia won't be separated from the rest of the world by sanctions

⚡️ Russia fines Google $370 million for refusing to remove banned content

📹 Former members of the so-called "ATO zone" from among the Ukrainian military, who are suspected of complicity in war crimes in Donbass, are involved in public works, for example, they repaint bridges in the colors of the Russian tricolor.

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⚡️ Russia's MFA: Today Kiev reaffirmed that it does not intend to negotiate with Russia, Zelensky does not want peace

🤔 A New York Times/Siena College poll revealed late last week that a total of 64% of Democratic voters said they prefer a new candidate, rather than Joe Biden, in the upcoming presidential campaign.

▪️ Independent US journalist Glenn Greenwald has argued that despite the fact that the mainstream media had taken an unfriendly turn against President Joe Biden in recent months, it's the Democrats themselves who want to take POTUS down ahead of the 2024 election.

▪️ In an interview with Fox News, Greenwald specifically referred to concerns about the 46th president’s “cognitive decline”, which he claimed had emanated “not from supporters of Bernie Sanders nor from supporters of Donald Trump.”

▪️ According to the journalist, the fears came from “these kinds of inside DC strategists and operatives who in 2019 were petrified that Biden would win the Democratic nomination basically by inertia—through name recognition, from having been Obama's vice president.”

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🙂 After hearing Joe Biden identify Jerusalem as Israel's capital and concede a two-state solution seemed "far away", one Palestinian official gave a blunt assessment of the US president's visit to the region.

🗯 "It's like the Trump years with a smile," said the official, who requested anonymity.

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🥰 In Belgorod, a kitten was rescued, after having been sealed inside a pavement by construction workers performing tile work.

❓ How he ended up there is unknown, but after the completion of the work, the inhabitants began to hear meowing from under the ground. The tiles had to be taken apart.

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😬 Prince Harry's friends would tell him that he was "f**king nuts" for dating Meghan Markle, according to a new book “Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors."

🤔 The Sun obtained several excerpts from the book that particularly described "endless banter, jokes — and a lot of drinking" that were the parties between Prince Harry and his pals from England’s prestigious Eton College. The big company would gather at the royal family’s Sandringham country estate in 2016, assembling a gang of 16 friends of Harry's, as well as their wives and girlfriends.

🙅 However, Meghan Markle did not really enjoy the gatherings. According to the book, she berated her future husbands' friends over their “jokes about sexism, feminism and transgender people."

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🇺🇸 Independent US journalist explains media shift against US President Joe Biden: ''Democrats are petrified he’s going to run again and clear the field''

"The concerns about his [Biden's] cognitive decline emanated not from supporters of Bernie Sanders nor Donald Trump, they came from these kinds of inside DC strategists and operatives who in 2019 were petrified that Biden would win the Democratic nomination basically by inertia," the independent US journalist Glenn Greenwald claimed.

📉The remarks followed the latest poll revealing that the majority of US Democrats do not want Biden to run for reelection in 2024. A total of 64% of Democratic voters made it clear they would prefer a new candidate in the upcoming presidential campaign, and only 13% believe that the country is on the right track, according to the New York Times/Siena College survey.

📊 US President Joe Biden’s net approval ratings fell further in the second quarter of 2022, with voters in 44 states more likely to hold an unfavorable rather than positive view of his performance, according to a Morning Consult poll released Monday.

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🇨🇭 The Swiss foreign ministry has refused to take in Ukrainians wounded in hostilities at home for fear of breaking neutrality, Swiss media reported on Monday.

▪️ Swiss cantons provisionally agreed to bring in wounded Ukrainian troops and civilians for treatment after the Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center made the request in May, the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper reported.

▪️ The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs said in June, however, after three weeks of deliberations, that it had to turn down the request on "legal and practical grounds" because Geneva and The Hague conventions require that belligerents tendered in neutral territory do not take part again in military operations.

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❗️ Turkey's Erdogan renews threat to 'freeze' Swedish, Finnish NATO bids

🇺🇸Three black women clubbed a white woman for being a Trump fan.

Jill LeCroix, a 57-year-old grandma of five, was left bleeding after she was blitzed by three black women on July 9 while riding the city bus — an attack now being investigated by the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force.

“Before they hit me, the girl with the green hair said, ‘You probably like Trump! Don’t you?’ LeCroix recalled. “I said, ‘I love him.’ I didn’t see which one hit me first."

LeCroix, who has three biracial children, said she needed three stiches on her head.

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