Follow our LIVE UPDATES on the Nord Stream situation

⚡️Russian Security Council Secretary on explosions at Nord Stream: US is main beneficiary, primarily economic

⚡️⚡️Lavrov: EU lost its autonomy, suffers enormous losses from what US dragged it into

📌Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev’s latest statements:

▪️It's categorically contraindicated to allow the US and its allies to join projects on the availability of water resources for different countries;

▪️The current Afghan authorities are still euphoric from their victory over the US;

▪️The prevention of weapons spreading from Ukraine to other regions requires the combined efforts of the special services of the Commonwealth of Independent States;

▪️The US ability to maintain its hegemony is becoming more limited, but Washington is actively trying to destabilise different countries;

▪️The management systems created by the Taliban in Afghanistan are unstable; there are contradictions within them;

▪️The main goal of the Anglo-Saxons remains to ensure their strategic and economic superiority over others;

▪️The current geopolitical situation in the world is unpredictable

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

⚡️EU should impose price cap not only on pipeline Russian gas but also on Russian LNG imports, EU Energy Commissioner says

⚡️23 killed, 34 injured in Ukrainian strike on civilian convoy near exit to liberated part of Zaporozhye region, local authorities say

⚡️ Russia already has materials that point to the role of the West in organizing and carrying out explosions on the "Northern Streams", Russian Foreign Intelligence Chief Sergei Naryshkin says

⚡️⚡️Russian Foreign Intel: Nord Stream blasts are 'int'l terrorist act' with West hiding the culprits

📹 A resident of the LPR describes how Ukrainian forces intentionally shelled a granary

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

❗️Heavy gunfire was heard from the main military camp of the capital of Burkina Faso and some residential areas, Reuters reported.

The military blocked access to administrative buildings and the national television station, which stopped broadcasting, according to Reuters journalists

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇷🇺 Mariupol and Donetsk were decorated with Russian flags on the eve of the signing of agreements on the entry of the new territories into Russia

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

⚡️Kremlin on Nord Stream emergency: this act of state terrorism cannot do without serious international investigation

⚡️Kremlin will consider shelling of new territories after their entry into Russia as aggression against it, Kremlin spokesman Peskov says

📹Footage of Pantsir self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and missile systems performing the capture and destruction of Ukrainian unmanned aerial target

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

⚡️Russia recognizes independence of DPR and LPR within borders of 2014 - Kremlin

LPR resident talks about how people have been waiting for eight years for peace

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

📌The latest statements of Kremlin spokesman Peskov:

▪️Putin briefed Lukashenko in detail about referenda in the DPR and LPR and in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions;

▪️The heads of the DPR and LPR and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions will take part in the signing of four agreements on the accession of the new regions to Russia;

▪️The DPR and LPR and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions will become the sovereign territory of Russia;

▪️Russia is not willing to develop theme of nuclear escalation;

▪️There are no plans for a phone conversation to be held between Putin and the UN Chief yet;

▪️The revocation of the export license of Turkstream’s operator does not affect its operation;

▪️Russia supports the continuation of the grain deal, as long as it provides food to the poorest countries of the world

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

Russian Defense Ministry briefing on the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️A strike destroyed the workshops for the assembly of Ukrainian Grom-2 and Tochka-U operational-tactical missiles in the Dnepropetrovsk region

▪️Up to 200 Ukrainian neo-Nazis, 23 military vehicles, and more than 30 tons of ammunition for artillery have been destroyed near Kramatorsk in the DPR

▪️Six Ukrainian warehouses of rocket and artillery armament and ammo have been destroyed in the DPR, Zaporozhye region and Dnepropetrovsk region

▪️A mobile group of the electronic intelligence center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed in the Nikolayev region

▪️A Ukrainian MiG-29 was shot down by Russian air forces near Kleshchevka settlement in the DPR

▪️A Ukrainian Su-25 was destroyed near Ternovie Podi, a settlement in Nikolayev region

▪️5 Ukrainian UAVs have been destroyed in the LPR, DPR and Kharkov regions

▪️18 HIMARS rockets have been destroyed in the air, as well as 2 HARM rockets in Kherson and Kherson region

Subscribe to @SputnikInt