🧐 A Russian diplomat who worked as a spokesperson for former President Boris Yeltsin said on Monday that he did not recall conversation about NATO's expansion during official meetings between Yeltsin and his US counterpart at the time, Bill Clinton.

▪️ Clinton said in a interview recently aired on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS" that he had a conversation with Yeltsin about the expansion of NATO to Eastern Europe during his tenure as the US president.

🗯 "I participated in three summit meetings between the two presidents in 1997-1998 and I do not recall talks about NATO’s expansion to the east at any of those meetings. There was no such conversation at the last three official meetings between Yeltsin and Clinton," Sergey Yastrzhembsky told Sputnik.

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⚡️ Russia’s MoD presented material evidence in Geneva of the United States conducting biological weapons development in Ukraine

⚡️Not a single delegation in Geneva had any doubts about the authenticity of the evidence of the US military biological program in Ukraine: Russia's MoD

⚡️ Russian MoD’s latest statements on US military biological activities in Ukraine:

▪️ Kiev and Washington have not proven that their cooperation has improved the sanitary situation in Ukraine; moreover, it has been deteriorating for 15 years in a row;

▪️ In Geneva, Washington and Kiev failed to answer a question about the reasons for the destruction of documents detailing US biological weapons-related activity in Ukraine;

▪️ The US delegation in Geneva acknowledged that biological research was being conducted in Ukraine on low-income citizens and patients in psychiatric hospitals;

▪️ Only 89 out of 184 countries participated in the meeting on the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons in Geneva due to US pressure;

▪️ The United States is building up its military biological potential by building laboratories within foreign nations and collecting strains of especially dangerous microorganisms;

▪️ The United States at a meeting in Geneva of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons recognized the fact that samples of pathogenic strains and biomaterials of citizens were exported from Ukraine.

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⚡️⚡️ LPR Civic Chamber calls to immediately hold referendum to make Lugansk part of Russia

⚡️LPR Civic Chamber says that Kiev neo-Nazis crossed all red lines, but their provocations only united the people of the LPR (the Lugansk People's Republic)

⚡️LPR Civic Chamber believes that joining the Russian Federation will secure the Republic and open up new opportunities on the way back to peaceful life.

Sputnik and RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said that the immediate referendum presents the Crimean scenario, and "it's all-in"

💬“Today there is a referendum, tomorrow — recognition as part of the Russian Federation, the day after tomorrow — strikes on the territory of Russia become a full-fledged war between Ukraine and NATO with Russia, unleashing Russia's hands in all respects. If I understand correctly, now referendums will be required not only in the LPR," she said.

⚡️Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his French counterpart discussed security at Zaporozhye NPP

❗️LPR Civic Chamber believes that the answer to the referendum request will be received soon.

The referendum on the entry of the LPR into Russia is a "matter of more than one day", it is too early to talk about the date, head of the LPR Civic Chamber added.

⚡️Russian Foreign Ministry summons Canadian ambassador, issues demarche to her

📹WATCH: The Civic Chamber of the LPR calls for an immediate referendum on the recognition of the Lugansk People's Republic as a part of the Russian Federation

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❗️Chinese naval forces, which are currently the largest in the world, are capable of fully blockading Taiwan, a US navy commander has said.