✈️ Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has sent two planes full of migrants out of his state, keeping his promise that he would divert illegal immigrants to "progressive states". According Fox News Digital, the migrants from Florida could be seen disembarking at the airport on Martha’s Vineyard - an island just off the state of Massachusetts.

🗣 Taryn Fenske, DeSantis' communications chief, said that states such as Massachusetts, New York and California are better qualified than Texas to "take care of these individuals who they have invited into our country."

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⚡️ The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that she had received an American visa to participate in the UN General Assembly, but a number of other members of the Russian delegation had not yet been given visas

❗️🇷🇺On the sidelines of the SCO summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan today, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold meetings with:

🇮🇷Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi
🇨🇳China’s leader Xi Jinping
🇵🇰Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov
🇹🇲Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedow
🇺🇿Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev

President Putin is also to take part in the trilateral summit Russia-Mongolia-China.

On Friday, the Russian leader will hold bilateral meetings with 🇮🇳India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 🇹🇷Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and 🇦🇿Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.

⚡️ Peskov on new US ambassador: one can hardly pin any hopes on envoy

📹 How do the 'Hurricane' multiple-launch rocket systems perform their combat actions during a special military operation?

Watch MLRS combat vehicles arrive at their starting position, deploy and launch rocket attacks with 220mm rockets at advancing Ukrainian forces

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📹 Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Samarkand for the SCO summit

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⚡️ "Security guarantees for Ukraine can only be given by leadership of this country, which will understand hopelessness of situation", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists

⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are in contact all the time, so there are no blocks to developing relations between the two countries further, Peskov said

🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting with Sadyr Japarov, the President of 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Samarkand. Many bilaterals precede the main event, more updates coming up.

Former First Lady Melania Trump shared her concerns with ex-New Jersey Governor Chris Christie over the phone and asked for his help in convincing Trump to take COVID more seriously, according to a book about Donald Trump's presidency which is soon to be released.

'The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021' reveals that Melania Trump worried during her husband's presidency that Trump was "blowing" the US response to COVID, but he told her she was worrying too much

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⚡️⚡️ Work on new Russia-Iran cooperation agreement at 'final stage': Putin

⚡️Russian delegation will leave for Iran next week, it will include representatives of 80 large Russian companies, Putin says

⚡️Effect of US sanctions against Russia and Iran will be neutralized, Iranian president says

⚡️UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the Russian delegation he would be prepared to hold a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as part of the UN General Assembly's high-level week, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

⚡️Russian Foreign Ministry on Ukraine's project on "security guarantees":

▪️This is an attempt to provide guarantees that the West will continue to finance and supply weapons;

▪️Only the return of Ukraine to a neutral status can give real guarantees

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⚡️China raises bids for gas supplies via power of Siberia even despite slowing domestic demand, Gazprom says