🇨🇦 Quebec Premier Francois Legault has stated that increasing immigration levels will be “a bit suicidal” for the mainly French-speaking Canadian province.

▪️ The statement was preceded by Legault arguing that non-French speaking immigration could threaten social cohesion in the province.

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⚡️ Ukrainian troops attack gas pipeline in the Kherson region, Novaya Kakhovka left without gas, local authorities say

⚡️ Ukrainian shelling kills around 30 refugees in Kharkov region, LPR ambassador says

📹 Watch how mortar crews train to support assault detachments from the Central Military District's mechanised infantry units as part of the special military operation.

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❗️NATO backs investigation into causes of Nord Stream damage

❗️NATO believes that the Nord Stream pipeline leaks were the result of sabotage

📹 Russia's MoD has revealed footage depicting the combat work of the crews of Ka-52 army helicopters from the Western Military District.

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⚡️Terrorist act on Nord Stream strings could hardly have taken place without involvement of any state, Kremlin says

⚡️Kremlin on Russian ships in Baltic Sea in light of Nord Stream emergency: there were many more NATO ships and aircraft

❗️Finland will close its border to Russians on Friday, Finnish authorities say

📹 LPR ambassador expresses his thoughts on the republic joining Russia.

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

▪️Russian Air Forces performed a high-precision attack on the positions of ‘Foreign Legion’ mercenary units in the DPR. As a result, up to 80 militants have been eliminated;

▪️Russian Forces opened fire on a Ukrainian provisional base in the Kharkov region, eliminating more than 70 Ukrainian servicemen and 14 units of military equipment;

▪️Russian Forces hit 6 Ukrainian command posts, as well as 87 Ukrainian artillery units and 198 areas where Ukrainian manpower and military equipment are concentrated;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed a Ukrainian platoon of Giatsint large-calibre guns in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed 9 Ukrainian missile, artillery armament and munitions depots in the DPR, Nikolayev, Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions;

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

▪️Russian aviation shot down a Ukrainian Mig-29 aircraft in the DPR, as well as a Ukrainian SU-24 aircraft in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian air defence destroyed 8 Ukrainian UAVs in the DPR, the LPR, Nikolayev and Kherson regions;

▪️In addition, Russian Forces intercepted 17 HIMARS rockets, as well as one HARM missile in the Kherson region.

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📹 LPR ambassador expresses his thoughts on how the accession of the republic to Russia will take place.

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📹 Captured Ukrainian officer describes how Ukrainian nationalists shot their colleagues "just for fun" and expresses his desire to go over to the side of Russia.

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⚡️North Korea fires another ballistic missile into Sea of Japan, South Korean news agency YONHAP claims.

🇫🇷 Paris’s Eiffel Tower will be closed all of Thursday amid a nationwide strike against a pension reform plan.

🗯 “Due to the strike, the Eiffel Tower will remain closed today,” a statement on the landmark’s website read.

▪️On Wednesday, the country’s major trade unions, including the CGT, FSU and Solidaires, urged the French to take to the streets of Paris and other cities to protest against the government’s plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, and demand an increase in wages and social benefits amid soaring inflation.

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📹 A volunteer who was on the front line says that it is safer there than in the center of Donetsk now.

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❗️Moscow and Washington discuss holding face-to-face meeting of START Advisory Commission, Russian Foreign Ministry says

📹 Have a look at a demonstration at the Lugansk Medical University in support of joining Russia.

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