⚡️Saboteurs detained during attempt to blow up Turkstream pipeline on Russian territory - Kremlin.

▪️ Several saboteurs have been detained during an attempt to blow up the TurkStream pipeline on Russian territory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.

💬 "Saboteurs were taken, several people were detained - they wanted to blow up (TurkSteam) on our territory, on land," Peskov told reporters.

❗️Twenty Russian soldiers have returned from the territory of Ukraine controlled by Kiev, as a result of negotiations on Thursday - Russian Defense Ministry

WATCH: Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Palestinian Authority head Mahmud Abbas during the Sixth CICA Summit in Astana.

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❗️Russian Foreign Ministry on the UN resolution on Ukraine: West solves its geopolitical tasks, this confrontational initiative aimed at prolonging the conflict.

⚡️In Kiev an air alert has been announced

⚡️In Odessa an air alert has been announced

⚡️An air alert has been announced in Kiev, Odessa, Nikolayev, Poltava, Rovno, Sumy and Cherkasy regions

⚡️An air alert has been declared on the entire territory of Ukraine

📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing Buk air defense missile system crews detecting and destroying an air target that was approaching a large settlement following a ballistic trajectory.

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📹 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, in a conversation with Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, admitted that Kiev is behind the attacks on the territory of Crimea and the Belgorod region.

▪️ The pranksters called Kuleba on behalf of former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.

💬 "Crimea is not the nearest operational target. But if you ask me who is blowing up something in Crimea or Belgorod, then in private communication I will tell you that, yes, it's us," Kuleba said.

▪️ The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry also admitted that Kiev was preparing a counteroffensive in the south "in close cooperation with partners, firstly the United States and Great Britain."

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⚡️Explosions heard in four Ukrainian regions, local media reports

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

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, three tanks, four infantry combat vehicles and seven motor vehicles in the Kharkov region

▪️Russian Forces eliminated two Ukrainian tanks, five infantry combat vehicles, two pickups and about 60 Ukrainian servicemen near Krasny Liman;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed 21 Ukrainian armored combat vehicles and 12 special motor vehicles, as well as more than 110 Ukrainian servicemen in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed five Ukrainian missile, artillery armament and munitions depots in the DPR, Zaporozhye and Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian Air Forces destroyed a Ukrainian MIG-29 aircraft in the Dnepropetrovsk region;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed a Ukrainian Su-27 airplane in the Poltava region;

▪️Russian air defense systems destroyed 12 Ukrainian UAVs, as well as intercepted 16 HIMARS and Olkha rockets and 10 HARM missiles.

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📹 🇷🇺 🇹🇷 WATCH Turkey's Erdogan tells President Putin that Ankara can help transport Russian grain and fertilizer to less developed countries.

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📹 Russia's MoD for the first time has published a video showing the use of the modernized Lancet loitering ammunition on Ukrainian militants.

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❗️NATO Chief promises ‘severe consequences’ if Russia uses nukes against Ukraine

▪️ Previously, NATO officials said that the alliance or allies will almost certainly respond in the case of a Russian nuclear attack on Ukraine. NATO head Jens Stoltenberg did not clarify what this “response” might look like, and if it would include force.

💬 "There will be severe consequences if Russia uses any kind of nuclear weapon against Ukraine. This is something Russia knows and something NATO and NATO allies have communicated in different ways to Russia," NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said.

▪️ He added that there's no exact answer on how the organization will respond, but that such a move would fundamentally change the conflict.

▪️The EU and NATO have been ramping up their rhetoric about the threat of a Russian nuclear attack in recent months. This is seen in Moscow as part of the anti-Russian policy and nuclear blackmail against the country.

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😒 "The second part of the grain deal, concerning the removal of restrictions on Russian fertilizers and food, is not being implemented at all", Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov has said, adding that 300,000 tons of fertilizers are located in various European ports with no one to distribute them.

▪️ Expressing his discontent with the issue, Ushakov has confirmed Russia’s readiness to distribute these fertilizers to poorer countries.

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💬 "There is a nepotism problem in power and if we're going to investigate Donald Trump's family while he's President and people are going to call for that, then I think it's reasonable to see how in our culture people would want Joe Biden's family to face the same scrutiny", Kevin Gosztola, journalist, writer for Shadowproof.com and co-host of the podcast Unauthorized Disclosure, comments on possible criminal charges against Hunter Biden

🎧 Listen to more of Kevin’s analysis in our podcast NATO’s Aid to Kiev, Ethiopian Peace Stalls, Danchenko Trial Bombshell

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❗Attack on NATO allies would trigger Article 5, but Ukraine is not a member of the alliance, the alliance chief says

💬 ‘NATO is not party to the conflict, but we will continue to support Ukraine no matter how long it takes,’ according to Jens Stoltenberg

❗️ A Florida jury on Thursday recommended a life sentence for Nikolas Cruz, who murdered 17 people and injured 17 others in a mass shooting at his former high school in Parkland, Florida in 2018.

▪️ While the jurors found that there were several aggravating factors proven beyond a reasonable doubt for all 17 counts of murder, they found that these factors did not ultimately outweigh the mitigating circumstances, thus leading them to recommend a sentence of life in prison without parole rather than the death penalty for each count.

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⚡️ US Defense Secretary Austin says NATO will not be dragged into Ukraine conflict

⚡️ Air raid alerts again declared in Odessa, Nikolaev regions, as well as the Kiev region