Russia guarantees all peoples living in the territories of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions the right to preserve and study their native language

President Putin is to appoint the interim heads of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions within 10 days from the date of admission to the Russian Federation

The DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions will have same names when admitted into the Russian Federation;

The DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions are considered to have been accepted into the Russian Federation from the date the contracts were signed

⚡️Indirect evidence, both public and that which cannot yet be revealed, point to a Western trace in the explosions at the Nord Stream pipelines, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Chief Sergei Naryshkin says

⚡️Russia is certain that US, Poland, Ukraine are interested in decommissioning Nord Stream, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Novak says

⚠️The ruble will be the official currency for the the new members of the Russian Federation although the hryvnia will remain in circulation and legal tender until 31 December 2022, documents have said. The armed forces of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions will be included in the armed forces of the Russian Federation

🇲🇩 A protest by supporters and representatives of the opposition Shor party in Moldova is taking place in Kishinev: the protesters are demanding the resignation of the country's leadership and early parliamentary elections.

One of the leaders of the protest movement, Dinu Turcanu, told Sputnik that about 40,000 people came to the rally

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Agreements on the entry of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into the Russian Federation have been submitted to the State Duma for ratification

“This is a crime against our people”: A pensioner from the LPR on the Ukrainian shelling which left seven of his neighbours dead.

⚔️Latest from the Russian MoD on the state of the special military operation:

▪️The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Krasny Liman direction amounted to more than 200 military personnel, 320 were injured;

▪️Over 100 Ukrainian servicemen and 12 pieces of military equipment were destroyed by missile strikes in the Kupyansk direction in Kharkov region;

▪️An offensive by the Ukrainian troops was thwarted in the direction of Davydov Brod, Bruskinskoye and Kostromka, more than 240 Ukrainian military personnel were killed;

▪️Seven depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition were destroyed in the Kharkov, Nikolayev, Zaporozhye regions and in the Ukrainian-controlled areas of the DPR;

▪️Russian troops destroyed 43 tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and more than 400 Ukrainian servicemen in a 24 hour period in the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction;

▪️Russian forces destroyed an S-300 air defense radar of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region;

▪️Aviation and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces hit a Armed Forces of Ukraine command and observation post, as well as a National Guard of Ukraine training base in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️Eight Ukrainian UAVs have been destroyed in the air over the Kherson region and the DPR

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