⚡️ 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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📌 Russia's Ministry of Defense on the situation at the Zaporozhye NPP:

▪️Ukrainian forces launched 6 artillery attacks on Energodar over the past 24 hours; a total of 27 projectiles were launched from Marganets, located on the opposite shore of the Kakhovka reservoir;

▪️An attack launched on a power transmission line resulted in the city being left without electricity;

▪️Personnel at the NPP control the technical condition of the nuclear power plant

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Just 3 out of 27 EU countries have spoken in favor of a price ceiling for Russian gas only, while another 15 have agreed to the introduction of a ceiling for gas from all supplier countries, an Italian minister said

🇬🇧 Boris Johnson has revealed how several months ago, BBC journalists asked him to give an interview about the Queen in the past tense - as though she had already died.

"And I’m afraid I simply choked up and I couldn’t go on," Johnson added. "I’m really not easily moved to tears, but I was so overcome with sadness, that I had to ask [the BBC] to go away."

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Grossi calls for immediate end of shelling in ZNPP area due to critical situation in facility’s power supply

❗More Russian troops filmed heading to the Kharkov region

📹 The Russian Defense Ministry has shown new footage of the deployment of reinforcements to the Kharkov region

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US policy on North Korea unchanged after country declares itself nuclear weapons state, Washington will continue to seek diplomacy - White House

🇮🇷🇺🇸 US imposes sanctions on Iran's intelligence ministry, minister over alleged cyber activities against US, allies - Treasury

🇪🇺 EU ministers have agreed to allocate 5 billion euros in macro-financial assistance to Ukraine out of the previously promised 9 billion euros - European Commission

Thousands of donkey penises worth around $478,000 that were about to be exported to Hong Kong have been seized by Nigerian officials

▪️The 16 sacks of animal parts were found in the animal export section of Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, according to a local official;

▪️It's noteworthy that the cargo was “falsely declared as cow male genitals”

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🇫🇷 Pailleron, the largest swimming pool in Paris, has closed due to rising energy prices - media

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said there is a "long way to go" before the G20 summit in November, when asked what US President Joe Biden will do if he encounters Russian President Vladimir Putin