⚡️⚡️ 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

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia, China should defend interests of regional security, developing countries, strengthen coordination within the SCO, BRICS, and other international organizations - Xi Jinping

US unlikely to provide long-range army tactical missile systems to Ukraine, despite Ukrainian requests - CNN

🎧 On Sputnik’s Political Misfits podcast, Mark Sleboda shared the view that Russia's decision to build up its military reserves is intended to "confront what is probably going to be a much bigger and decisive battle in the next week or two" during the Ukraine op.

He warned that Ukrainian neo-Nazi battalions are going to "cleanse" all of those who cooperated with Russia. Under new laws of the Kiev regime, anyone who has obtained a Russian passport, dual citizenship, or supported Russian forces on social media will be viewed as a "collaborator" by the neo-Nazis, Sleboda explained.

🗣 "We all know, let's be frank, that they're mostly going to end up shot in the back of the head, because that's what cracking. We've seen a lot of that in Bucha and elsewhere. Invariably they'll then say, 'oh, we came in and found these people dead and the Russian forces did it to them.'"

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In Colorado 22-year-old Christian Glass, who had a mental health crisis, was shot by police after he called 911 for help as his car crashed into a berm. Police officers behaved aggressively and Christian started to panic and decided not to leave the car. They failed to convince Christian to leave the vehicle. In the end, the officers knocked out the car window, and pointed a weapon at him, which made the young man scared and picked up a knife. Then one of the cops used a taser on Christian, and the other shot him through the windshield.

After the incident, the police allegedly lied, saying that he tried to attack them with a knife, but this refuted by a recording from the body camera of the officer who opened fire. An examination showed that the young man was not drunk and had not taken drugs

❗The Pentagon has signed a $311 million contract with Raytheon and Lockheed Martin for the supply of 1,800 Javelin systems to Ukraine, a document says

Earlier, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called Western weapons deliveries to Ukraine “pouring oil on the fire,” warning that the shipments would become a “legitimate target” for Russian forces.

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⚡️🇦🇫🇵🇰 WATCH: Taliban* border guards breach the fence at the Durand Line and cross over into Pakistan

The footage surfaced amid renewed tensions following deadly clashes between the two sides on Tuesday that left three Pakistani soldiers dead.

*under UN sanctions over terrorist activities

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