⚡️⚡️ EU council adopts full suspension of visa facilitation with Russia

‘Diarrhea, pneumonia, and malaria’: Bill Gates has called for creating new vaccines that are aimed at reducing childhood deaths from infectious diseases

▪In a new video called "Why do children die?" the billionaire US businessman and Microsoft founder suggested a way to prevent child mortality – new vaccines;

▪At the same time, Gates says the infant mortality rate has been dropping in recent decades

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❗Talks between Putin and Erdogan in Samarkand being prepared, grain deal will be discussed, including supply of Russian food - Kremlin

⚡️ EU will impose strict restrictions on tourist visas for Russians, entry is possible for family reasons and journalists - European Commissioner

🚁 "A furious eight [Mi8] flew by and destroyed everything we have here," Ukrainian troops describe the Mi8 helicopter after it destroyed the Buk-M1 self-propelled air defense system and Ukrainian command post; a Russian serviceman tells how Ukrainian forces were impressed by the Russian helicopter

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🇮🇳🌩 WATCH: Scary footage of a lightning striking a building in Borivali, Mumbai has gone viral on Twitter.

Luckily, the city authorities installed a lightning rod in the building so that when lightning strikes it goes directly to the ground.

The US is training members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - an organization banned in Turkey - on the Syrian-Turkish border, the newspaper Turkish Milliyet reported on Friday.

Turkish forces have been conducting operations against Kurdish formations on Syria's border territory, and Damascus has repeatedly complained about their presence there and called on Ankara to withdraw Turkish troops

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🇮🇹 A restaurant in Rome has hung a sad inflatable doll with a sign reading "I received the bill" in its window amid a drastic increase in energy prices

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📹 The Russian military is moving armored vehicles and personnel to the Kharkov region (video by Russia’s MoD)

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Proposal to impose price cap on Russian gas did not receive wide support from EU energy ministers at meeting on Friday - reports

📌 Russian Foreign Ministry on the possibility of introducing visas for Ukrainians:

▪️Russia's specific reaction is currently being worked out, but Moscow has no plans for a reciprocal response;

▪️Moscow will proceed, first of all, from the interests of Russia and humanitarian considerations;

▪️Russia doesn't have plans to create new difficulties for Ukrainian citizens, including refugees who seek protection in Russia

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⚡️ NATO putting hundreds of thousands of troops on high readiness on east of alliance, Stoltenberg says

❗Blinken on energy crisis in Europe: US won’t leave its European friends out in the cold

🇺🇸🇬🇧 Biden to attend Queen Elizabeth's funeral - report

❗King Charles III to address UK at 1700 GMT - Parliament Speaker

⚡24 out of 30 NATO countries have ratified the protocol on admitting Finland and Sweden to the alliance - Stoltenberg

🇦🇫 It looks like the Taliban* has presented the news about UK Queen Elizabeth II's death with its own twist: Bakhtar News Agency, Afghanistan's official state news agency, posted a photo of the Queen, depicting her as a vampire with blood covering her clothes.

The tweet was deleted shortly after, but the screenshots have gone viral

*under UN sanctions for terrorist activities

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⚡️The Hungarian Foreign Minister said that EU energy ministers did not reach a decision on setting a ceiling on gas prices

⚡Just 3% of deliveries under grain deal sent to needy countries: Putin

❗Russia ready to export potash fertilizers to developing countries free of charge - Putin

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

▪️Russian Aerospace Forces hit command posts of the Kraken nationalist group deployed near Prishib, Kharkov region; more than 50 nationalists as well as 16 units of special military equipment and motor vehicles were eliminated;

▪️Russian forces, using high-precision weapons, destroyed more than 120 Ukrainian servicemen and over 50 were wounded near Kharkov;

▪️Russian aviation hit eight Ukrainian command posts as well as 52 artillery units, and 153 Ukrainian manpower and military equipment concentration areas over past 24 hours;

▪️Russian forces destroyed three Ukrainian missile, artillery, and munitions depots near Chuguyev in the Kharkov region, and Radushnoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region, a combat vehicle of the US-manufactured HIMARS multiple rocket-launching system near Chervony Donets, Kharkov region, and a US-manufactured M-777 howitzer near Rovnopolye, Zaporozhye region;

▪️Russian air defenses shot down six Ukrainian drones as well as 18 projectiles launched by HIMARS and Olkha MLRS over the past 24 hours

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