⚡️ Explosions in Kiev are reported by local media

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

▪️The Russian Army eliminated more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, four armored combat vehicles, and three pickup trucks in the Kupyansk direction.

▪️Russian Forces thwarted an attempt to cross the Zherebets River at night, eliminating more than 30 Ukrainian soldiers, three armored combat vehicles, and two cars.

▪️Russian troops eliminated more than 120 Ukrainian servicemen and mercenaries, eight armored combat vehicles, and 12 cars in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction. Seven command posts, Ukrainian manpower, and military equipment were destroyed in 156 areas.

▪️The Russian Army destroyed three ammunition depots in the areas of the settlements of Chervona Dolina, Kharkov region, Novogrigorovka, Zaporozhye region, and Bereznegovatoe, Nikolaev region.

▪️Russian forces destroyed two Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems.

▪️Russian troops destroyed two artillery batteries and two platoons of Uragan multiple launch rocket systems.

▪️Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft, 12 UAVs, and intercepted 11 shells from HIMARS and Olkha rocket systems, as well as eight HARM anti-radar missiles.

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⚡️ Martial law declared in DPR, LPR, Kherson & Zaporozhye regions - Putin

❗️Key points from President Putin’s speech during today's meeting with Russia's Security Council:

▪️The Kiev regime is creating sabotage groups and sending them to Russia

▪️The decree on martial law in the DPR, LPR, Kherson, and Zaporozhye regions will immediately be sent to the Federation Council

▪️The decree provides for several levels of response to emerging security risks

▪️The governors will receive additional powers to ensure security in the regions. Their actions must correspond to the situation in the particular subject of the Russian Federation

▪️ Russia is proud of everyone who serves their duty to defend the Fatherland, and soldiers must be provided with everything they need

▪️ It is necessary to adjust the current concept of migration policy to the new reality

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🎥 Russia's Defense Ministry has published footage of missile launches against Ukrainian military command centers and energy infrastructure.

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🇸🇪 Sweden’s new government has announced it is ditching the country’s “feminist foreign policy” launched by its left-wing predecessors less than a decade ago.

▪️ Newly appointed Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said the approach introduced and popularized by the Social Democrats was counterproductive for Sweden's international agenda.

▪️ The term “feminist foreign policy” was attributed to former Foreign Minister Margot Wallström, and the approach which placed gender equality at the heart of Sweden’s international agenda. Its stated goals included the promotion of economic emancipation abroad, fighting sexual violence and improving women’s political participation across the globe.

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🤔 🇮🇷 The revival of the Iran nuclear deal may be fatally stalled after two years of indirect US-Iranian talks, according to the White House. Following the US' suit, the EU, another signatory to the deal, has slapped sanctions on Iran over its response to ongoing protests and accused Tehran of involvement in the Ukraine conflict.

📌 Check out our latest op-ed dedicated on the topic

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⚡️Russia’s Federation Council Approves Putin’s Decree on Martial Law in DPR, LPR, Kherson & Zaporozhye Regions

🇨🇳🇺🇸The Biden administration is mulling joint weapon production with Taiwan, Japan’s Nikkei newspaper says.

According to sources familiar with the matter, the US aims to bolster its defense against China in the Pacific region. Washington wants to step up the production capacity of US-made arms and speed up transfer.

The escalating economic and military tensions between China and the US are continuing, and while Washington continues to say that the US is committed to the One China policy, it continues to act as if Taiwan and the mainland are two countries.

Previously, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that "in the face of serious provocations by separatist forces calling for Taiwan’s independence, and interference from outside forces," China would "protect national sovereignty and territorial integrity."

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🎥 The moment a burning dome at the Grand Mosque of Jakarta Islamic Center collapses has been caught on video.

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🎥 Vladimir Putin introduces state of martial law in Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk People's Republic, and Lugansk People's Republic during Russian Security Council meeting.

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🎥 A video from a CCTV camera has emerged on social media allegedly showing the moment a Ukrainian missile hit the administrative center of Energodar - the city where the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant is situated.

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⚡️Suella Braverman Quits as UK Home Secretary

🇬🇧 Suella Braveman has posted her resignation letter on Twitter after reportedly being asked to step down over a security breach.

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💬 Jim Kavanagh, an editor of thepolemicist.net, discusses EU Foreign Affairs representative Josep Borrel’s recent racist commentary: "This little bit that he gave out, which exposes the kind of exceptionalism and supremacism of the European Union and of European social democrats, as well as right-wingers. There's a jungle out there and there's so many things you can’t get into at this point. You know, they're breeding like bunnies and they're going to come here and jump over the walls, and so we got to do something about it. You know, it's really about, as you say, blatant racism of a certain kind, but it's the self-conception of, you know, “Fortress Europe” and “Garden Europe,” “civilized” Europe. But what's really interesting, as you say, is that this is demonstrating that the EU, which is supposed to be an economic and social union, is really an adjunct of NATO. Behind the scenes NATO's going to control what the EU does."

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⚡️Grant Shapps appointed UK's new Home Secretary, PM's Office Says

💫 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the highly detailed landscape of the so-called “Pillars of Creation.”

The pillars are part of the Eagle Nebula, also known as M-16, in the plane of the Milky Way some 6,500 light years from Earth.

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