📹 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

❗️ Pipeline gas supplies from Russia to Pakistan are possible, part of the infrastructure has been already created - Putin

▪️If US decides to supply Ukraine with longer-range missiles, this will cross 'red line,' make US direct party to conflict, Maria Zakharova says;

▪️Russia reserves the right to respond adequately in the event of a US decision to supply Ukraine with longer-range missiles, Zakharova added

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A car collided with Ukrainian President Zelensky’s motorcade in Kiev

⚠️WARNING: The following footage may be disturbing

Zelensky was not injured, but doctors accompanying him had to provide emergency treatment to the driver of the car that crashed into the motorcade.

Alleged video of the aftermath of the crash has emerged online

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⚡🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin at a meeting with Xi:

▪The tandem of Moscow and Beijing plays a key role in ensuring global and regional stability;

▪Russia firmly adheres to One China principle, condemns US provocations over Taiwan;

▪Russia and China stand for the formation of a world order based on international law, and not on invented rules;

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🤷‍♂️ Ukrainians got into a fight in Nice, France, mistaking each other for Russians, the local prosecutor's office said

▪The beaten women claimed that the attacker was Russian and that he hit them because they were listening to a song in Ukrainian with anti-Russian slogans;

▪The suspect is a former Ukrainian soldier who explained to the police that he mistook the two women for Russians;

▪The man faces up to three years in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros;

▪Before the French police said the detainee was a former Ukrainian soldier, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry had said that it was necessary to find the culprit of this "disgusting incident"

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Russia’s decision to use "only 150,000 servicemen out of a million active duty military and two million reserves" is a signal to NATO that Moscow's "intentions are limited," Mark Sleboda, an international relations and security analyst, told Sputnik on the podcast By Any Means Necessary, commenting on the latest developments surrounding Russia's special operation in Ukraine.

Furthermore, Sleboda says, it's also an indication that Russia is always willing to return to peace talks on the terms that they set out at the beginning of the military operation; as well as a possible attempt "to prevent a direct NATO military incursion into west Ukraine"

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⚡⚡ The Lancet claims COVID-19 may have leaked from an American lab

The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals, sensationally claims that COVID-19 may have leaked out of a US lab. The authors underline that the US National Institute for Health, which is responsible for carrying out research on the world's deadliest pathogens, had "resisted disclosing details" of its work.

Scientists say that the exact origin of the virus is still unknown due to the efforts of "certain states" to hide information about the early stage of its spread. It is mentioned that so-called independent teams have “not yet investigated” US labs.

❗Earlier, mainstream media and Western academics have publicly called the lab leak theory an unhinged "conspiracy theory." The Russian Defense Ministry, on the contrary, said that the spread of COVID-19 may have been man-made in nature and that there are facts that indicate US involvement

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🇺🇸 2 buses with migrants sent from Texas arrive near Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington, DC

Between 75 and 100 migrants, originally from Venezuela, Uruguay, Colombia, and Mexico were sent to DC by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, as this has become one of the methods to cope with illegal migrants crossing the US-Mexico border

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⚡🎾 Tennis legend, Roger Federer announces his retirement