📹 A Sputnik correspondent films the work of Russian Su-25 attack aircraft.

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⚡️ Switzerland has lost its neutral status and cannot represent the interests of Kiev in Russia - Russian Foreign Ministry

⚡️ Moscow urges US to not speculate on prisoner exchanges and to stop trying to put pressure on Russia - Russian Foreign Ministry

😮 📹 A small, single-engine plane made an emergency landing outside of Los Angeles on Tuesday. Remarkably and despite a fiery crash into the back of a pickup truck, no one was hurt.

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🇰🇵 Kim Jong Un 'solemnly declared victory' over coronavirus in North Korea, Yonhap News Agency reports

📹 Footage of Grad multiple-launch rocket systems being fired in combat.

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🇱🇻 Moscow may take retaliatory measures in response to Latvia's decision to designate Russia a "state that supports terrorism," a Russian senator told Sputnik.

According to Sergei Tsekov, the measures may firstly be of an economic nature, in particular, a ban on the transit of goods through Russia.

The Latvian parliament adopted a motion on Thursday in which "Russia is recognized as a state that supports terrorism," while Moscow's actions against the population of Ukraine are designated as "terrorism."

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❗️ Scholz has a hard time with the idea of a blanket visa ban for Russian citizens

⚡️ Moscow: Latvia was driven by xenophobia when it declared Russia 'sponsor of terrorism'

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

▪️ Active Allied Forces' offensive operations have eliminated more than 50 percent of the personnel in the AFU’s 14th and 66th mechanised brigades.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery strikes continue against military facilities in Ukraine.

▪️ As part of counter-battery warfare, three platoons of Grad multiple-launch rocket systems, two artillery platoons of Acatsiya guns and three platoons of D-30 howitzers have been suppressed at firing positions in the DPR.

▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces fighter aircraft have shot down 1 Mi-24 helicopter near in Dnepropetrovsk Region.

▪️ Russian air defences have destroyed 7 UAVs in Kharkov Region.

▪️ Some 267 Ukrainian airplanes and 146 helicopters, 1,727 unmanned aerial vehicles, 365 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,287 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 797 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,290 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,820 special military vehicles have been destroyed during the operation.

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📹 A naked Florida felon armed with a machete was arrested Monday after demanding a man’s clothes at knifepoint, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.

▪️ The victim told deputies that Brandon Wright suddenly came running out of bushes where he was picking berries and told him to hand over his garments, wallet, and phone around 10 a.m., officials said.

▪️ A police helicopter tracked Wright down and relayed his activities to a dispatcher.

▪️ The sheriff’s office said Wright had prior convictions for kidnapping, gun possession by a felon, battery on a law enforcement officer, cocaine possession, and resisting arrest.

▪️ He remains in custody without bond.

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⚡️ Restoration of Ukraine will be bigger than "Marshall Plan", will cost billions - Scholz

📹 “They leave their positions, refusing to fight”: A captured Ukrainian soldier speaks out about the mood of his comrades.

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⚡️ Top Taliban* ideologue Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani reportedly killed in a suicide attack in Kabul

* The Taliban is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities

📹 A video allegedly showing the aftermath of the attack.

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📌 Check out OPEC's latest information:

▪️ OPEC has slightly upgraded its forecast for oil production for 2022 outside the organization by 65,000 barrels per day and expects it to be 65.8 million barrels per day.

▪️ OPEC has downgraded its forecast for world oil demand growth in 2022 by 300,000 barrels per day to 3.1 million barrels per day.

▪️ The commercial oil storks in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) rose by 20.9 million barrels in June month-on-month, and were below the 5-year average by 261 million barrels.

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❗The Ukrainian Army has again fired at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. No casualties were reported, a member of the main council of the regional administration said, also publishing a video.