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⚡️ Russia ready to consider EU applications on joint probe into Nord Stream incident - diplomat

⚡️North Korea launched an "unidentified ballistic missile" toward the East Sea, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says.

The launch comes as US Vice President Kamala Harris is set to visit Seoul on Thursday.

❗️ Kremlin: Allegations that Moscow behind Nord Stream pipeline emergency absurd since Russia lost supply routes

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❗️ Latest statements of Kremlin spokesman Peskov on the Nord Stream pipeline emergency:

▪️ Dmitry Peskov has recalled Biden's call in early February to get rid of Nord Stream 2.

▪️ He has also described assertions that Russia is behind the pipeline emergency as stupid and absurd.

▪️ Peskov has said that Russia is suffering losses because of what happened.

▪️ The Kremlin spokesperson has urged Western politicians to think before making statements on the issue.

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⚡️In a separate report, Yonhap (South Korean news agency) said that North Korea launches 2 short-range ballistic missiles from Pyongyang

❗️ US embassy urges American citizens to refrain from traveling to Russia and those in country to leave immediately

📹 Residents of LPR explain why they voted in favor of joining Russia.

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📹 Watch how the results of the referendum on joining Russia in the LPR are being announced.

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❗️Russia’s MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian Forces performed massive attacks on the provisional deployment bases of Ukrainian brigades in the Kharkov region, eliminating more than 150 Ukrainian servicemen and 12 armored vehicles;

▪️Russian Forces performed high-precision attacks, hitting a Ukrainian armored vehicle plant that had been storing over 90 tanks and other armored combat vehicles;

▪️The Ukrainian Army has lost more than 70 servicemen and four tanks, six infantry combat vehicles and three armored vehicles as a result of its unsuccessful offensive towards Krasny Liman;

▪️Russian Air Forces hit the provisional bases of the Ukrainian brigades in the Zaporozhye region. As a result, more than 100 combatants and 20 units of military equipment have been eliminated;

▪️Russian Forces performed a high-precision attack on the Ukrainian EnergoMekhKomplekt plant, destroying 10 field artillery guns and 15 motor vehicles;

▪️Russian Forces performed a massive fire attack, hitting the provisional bases of the Ukrainian 28th Mechanized and 59th Mechanized Infantry brigades. As a result more than 90 Ukrainian servicemen and militants, as well as 18 units of military equipment have been eliminated;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed 4 Ukrainian missile, artillery armament and munitions depots in the DPR, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa regions;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed a Ukrainian S-300 air defense system radar in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian aviation shot down Ukrainian Su-24 airplane in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian air defense means destroyed 5 Ukrainian UAVs in the DPR, Zaporozhye and Nikolayev regions, as well as intercepted 2 Tochka-U ballistic missiles in the Kharkov and Kherson regions and 7 projectiles of Ukrainian multiple-launch rocket systems in the LPR and in the Kherson region.

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⚡️Biden must say whether US involved in Nord Stream incident after his threats to 'end' the pipeline, Moscow says

“It is the victory which we have sought out together for a long eight years”

📹WATCH how the LPR head Leonid Pasechnik congratulates the Republic’s residents following the successful referendum on joining Russia

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📹 Russia's MoD has published footage showing the Central Military District's Buk-M3 air defense missile system crews in combat as part of the special military operation.

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❗️US weapons stock earmarked for Kiev are running out, CNBC reports, citing a senior researcher at the US National Defense University.

❗️Hurricane Ian nearing Florida grows to a category 5 storm, with maximum sustained winds now up to 155 mph, the National Hurricane Center says.

❗️Deal between Russia and Taliban* on deliveries of gasoline, fuel, lng (liquefied natural gas) and grain to Afghanistan tentatively approved, details being discussed, Moscow says.

*under UN sanctions for terrorist activities

⚡️ 📊 Check out Sputnik’s infographic to see the results of the referendums on joining Russia in the liberated territories.

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❗️ The government quarter "Green Zone" in the center of Baghdad came under artillery fire, a security source told Sputnik.

🗯 "The rocket fell in the area of the Green Zone," the source said.

▪️ Information about the victims at the moment has not been reported.