⚡️ The West wants to return Africa to colonialism by imposing military pressure on sovereign countries and supporting separatism and terrorism, Shoigu says

😧 A Greek fighter intercepted a Lebanese civilian aircraft, after it failed to respond to Greek services on the ground. A distress signal, indicating that the plane had been hijacked or there was a bomb on board, was sent.

When the fighters came close to the Airbus, communication was established and the astonished pilot said that everything was fine.

It later transpired that, while the Greek air traffic controllers were trying to make contact with the plane, it was actually being flown by the son of the airline's owner

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📌 The latest updates on the Ukraine op from the Russian Defense Ministry:

▪️The Russian Air Force eliminated more than 20 nationalists and injured almost 30 near Andreyevka and Lozovoye, in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian forces found more than 50 French-made EMP F2 anti-tank mines near Artemovsk, DPR. Their use is a violation of the requirements of the Geneva Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Non-Violent Weapons;

▪️Russian air defenses destroyed two Ukrainian drones near Topolevka, LPR and Charyvnoye in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian aviation, missile troops and artillery hit seven control points of Ukrainian forces in 182 districts and destroyed an air defense detection radar station near Bashtanka, Nikolaev region during the day;

▪️Russian artillery destroyed two Ukrainian MLRS "Grad" platoons and eight artillery platoons over the past 24 hours

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⚡️ ⚡️A military warehouse near Dzhankoy settlement, Crimea was damaged as a result of sabotage, the Russian MoD says

😳 The drought in Europe has caused the so-called ‘Hunger Stones’ on the Elbe and the Rhine to surface. Some stones were created centuries ago to warn of a dangerous drop in river levels and poor harvests. One of “predicting stones” says "when you see me, weep”.

The last time they were seen was in 2016

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⚡️ US conducts tests of Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile to demonstrate readiness of nuclear forces, the Air Force Global Strike Command said

💬 New statements from former US President Donald Trump on the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago home:

▪Trump insists law enforcement has never previously broken into the home of a former president of the US before;

▪He pointed out that the US is in "a very dangerous position" and that there's "tremendous anger" in the country;

▪Trump promised to do "whatever I can to help the country" to bring "down the temperature" in the US;

▪Trump's representatives have reached out to the Justice Department to offer to help amid outrage over the FBI’s raid on his private residence

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⚡️Gas futures in Europe top $2,500 per thousand cubic meters first time since March

⚡️ ⚡️US is increasing its strike potential in the Asia-Pacific region, working on the possibility of deploying ballistic missiles there, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia says

An Israeli soldier was killed by friendly fire near the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Tuesday night, an investigation is underway, the IDF said

💬 Israeli radio station 103 FM reported, citing representatives of the army, that fellow soldiers mistook him for a terrorist after he left the guardpost at the separation barrier.

🥴 "I'm not doing that again": A US congressman Ronny Jackson promised that he will never eat a 'whole plate of dog penises' ever again.

🇰🇷 What the US Republican representative for Texas learnt after a trip to South Korea is that eating dog penises looks like a bad idea.

🤔 One might wonder what this Korean delicacy is. It seems as though the dish Jackson mentioned on the Ruthless podcast is gaebul, Urechis unicinctus, better known as fat Innkeeper worm or penis fish, a type of marine spoon worm found in East Asia. It is also thought that gaebul resembles a dog's genitals, which is how the congressman came to think he was eating something that sounds so unappetizing

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⚡️ Ukrainian saboteurs blew up six poles of high-voltage power transmission lines in the Kursk region, Russian Federal Security Service says

📹 John Mark Duggan, a journalist and former Marine, said that a lot of former Marines in the US are on the side of Russia and don't believe the lies of the western media

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⚡️FBI returns Trump passports seized in Mar-a-Lago raid, NBC reports, citing a Justice Department official

🍔"Isn't meat ‘normal’!? We say: No": Austria's Burger King has a new view on what normal meals are

A YouTube video with more than 150,000 views shows customers reacting both positively and negatively. The campaign Burger King launched has spurred debate on social media

"Veggie is our new normal," says the cashier in the ad.

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📹The DPR People's militia provided evidence of lies told by the Ukrainian media

Footage taken in the destroyed school building in Alexandrovka in the Kherson region, proves the deception of the Kiev-controlled media, which claimed that Ukrainian forces are not using civilians as human shields.

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⚡Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19

Jill Biden's communications director said in a statement that the double-vaccinated, twice-boosted US First Lady is experiencing mild symptoms of coronavirus

⚡Russian MoD:

▪Britain has applied to fly its RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft over Russia. We regard this action as a deliberate provocation

▪Russia's aerospace forces have been given the task of preventing violations of airspace. All possible repercussions will be Britain's responsibility

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