Watch: Gunners of the DPR's forces showed the activity of the drone and artillery. The footage shows the discovery and destruction of a fortified point of Ukrainian troops near Avdeevka

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Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk introduced a prototype of the humanoid robot Optimus at the electric vehicle maker’s AI Day event in Palo Alto, California, predicting that the electric vehicle-maker would be able to produce millions of them in due course.

🤖The Tesla robot presented by Musk, will probably cost less than $20,000 and one of its functions could be as a “companion robot”.

🗣“Our goal is to make a useful humanoid robot as quickly as possible,” Musk said at the event. “There’s still a lot of work to be done to refine Optimus and prove it.”

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⚡️Turkey's Erdogan reiterates opposition to Swedish, Finnish NATO bids

⚡️Gas supplies under Gazprom export contracts via Austria stopped due to refusal of operator in Austria to confirm transport nominations - Gazprom

WATCH: Footage of combat actions carried out by the Russian Uragan MLRS during the special operation in Ukraine

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Perhaps in the dim and distant future some American official will reveal in his autobiography what really happened in the Nord Stream pipe explosions. For now, the US denies its involvement - but why don't we have a look to see what history can teach us?

❗️Allied troops withdrawn from settlement of Krasny Liman to more favorable borders amid threat of encirclement – Russian MoD

Russian MoD on the situation in the settlement of Krasny Liman:

▪️More than 200 Ukrainian servicemen, five tanks and nine infantry fighting vehicles have been destroyed in the direction of Krasny Liman

▪️Despite the losses suffered, having a significant superiority in forces and means, the enemy continued the offensive in this direction

▪️Due to a threat of encirclement, allied troops were withdrawn from the settlement of Krasny Liman to more advantageous areas

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💭 Russia has not been reelected to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Reuters reported on Saturday. Sputnik has requested ICAO's press service to comment on this report, but has received no response yet.

▪️Reuters did not specify its sources, while saying that Russia failed to receive enough votes to secure its seat in ICAO's governing body, comprising 36 member states

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🌀 An office in Maharashtra’s Pune was hit by heavy winds which blew away a great number of documents and files. A video showing the incident immediately went viral on social media.

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⚡Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signs ban on transportation of goods to companies from EU, UK, Norway, Ukraine - document

⚠️Gas leak on Nord Stream 2 stops, pressure stabilizes - Danish Energy Agency

❗There are "more and more signs" that the United States is "responsible" for the sabotage on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, believes ex-Swiss intelligence officer Jacques Baud.

Poland and Ukraine may be the culprits as well, as countries that vehemently lobbied for the transit of gas through their territories and opposed the pipeline to begin with, the former NATO adviser said on French radio station Courtoisie's program, Ligne Droite.

The United States also made no secret of its vested interest in rupturing all ties between Russia and European countries, Baud added.

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❗Exclusive: In an interview with Sputnik, Anna Evstigneeva, Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations on Political Affairs, expressed her opinion about ties between Russia and the African nations, western economic pressure on those countries and issues of grain supplies to the African continent

Russia retains full membership in ICAO - Rosaviatsiya (The Federal Air Transport Agency)

🇬🇧A new day of protests in the UK against energy prices and cost of living crisis

Hundreds of people have been demonstrating in several British cities against the unprecedented rise in prices and the inflation that plagues the country.

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🇳🇮🇳🇱 The Netherlands regrets Nicaragua's decision to sever diplomatic relations and will discuss further steps with the European Union, Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said

"The Netherlands regrets the disproportionate decision by Nicaragua to break off diplomatic relations. We take a firm stand on the worsening democratic structures and human rights violations in Nicaragua. But a critical discussion is always better than ending relations," Hoekstra wrote on Twitter.

On Friday, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega condemned the Netherlands' alleged interference in his country's affairs and said that he did not want to maintain relations with "this interventionist government." This happened after Dutch Ambassador to Central America Christine Pirenne visited the Nicaraguan capital of Managua and spoke with local residents "as if Nicaragua were a Dutch colony," as described by the Nicaraguan president.

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The United States sees no evidence suggesting that Russia has decided to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday.

▪️"I don't see anything right now that would lead me to believe that he [Russian President Vladimir Putin] has made such a decision," Austin said.

▪️The Pentagon chief said that Washington had previously communicated these concerns to Moscow via top-level channels.

▪️Earlier this week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia does not want to develop the theme of nuclear escalation and is urging everyone to behave responsibly

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🇧🇫🇫🇷 The French foreign ministry has denied the country's involvement in the events taking place after a military takeover in Burkina Faso amid allegations that the deposed leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba sought refuge in a French military base.

"France officially denies any involvement in the events that have been taking place since yesterday in Burkina Faso. The base where French forces are located has never hosted Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, nor has our embassy," the statement said.

On Friday night, media in Burkina Faso reported that Damiba, the leader of an interim government who himself came to power through a coup in January, was ousted by a group of military led by Capt. Ibrahim Traore in what is already the second military takeover in the country in eight months. Traore's group suspended the constitution and closed the borders. It also said that Damiba is hiding at a French military base and is plotting a "counteroffensive."

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💬 US says 'deeply concerned' by situation in Burkina Faso