⬇️ 🇺🇸 The Biden administration continues to play down the possibility of the US facing a recession in the near future amid warnings that the process may kick off in just a matter of months.

📌 Last month, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers suggested that America could experience a recession within the next 18 months, which he claimed would be “a consequence of the excesses” that the country’s economy has been through.

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🇯🇵 The Japanese government considers relaxing restrictions on exports of secondhand military equipment including tanks and missiles and explores the possibility of such supplies to Asian countries free of charge, Japanese press reported on Sunday citing sources.

▪️ Provisions allowing the country to send secondhand equipment to other nations could be included in an updated National Security Strategy, which is set to be released by the Japanese government until the end of this year, sources told Nikkei, adding that this measure should strengthen Japan's military cooperation with other countries in the region amid China's growing military power.

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❗️Tanzania's Precision Air plane en route from Dar es Salaam to Bukoba crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania.

❗️The crash reportedly occurred due to a bad weather.

❓There is no immediate information on how many passengers were on board.

👉A rescue operation is underway.

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❗According to preliminary reports, at least 53 people (49 passengers and 4 crew members) were aboard the plane that crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania.

⚡️Ukrainian troops have shelled the Kakhovskaya HPP with 6 HIMARS missiles, hitting the dam lock; there is destruction, local emergency services report

😨 Former US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he doubted the country could survive the two remaining years of President Joe Biden's term, alluding to the failures of his administration.

💬"This country — I don't know if it's going to live for another two years that's what is happening. So you've got to get out and vote for this man [Republican candidate Mehmet Oz]. He is a good man," Trump said at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.

▪️Trump stressed that the US "has never been so bad as it is right now," noting Washington's weakening standing in the world.

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❗️Russian MoD's briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 200 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed eight Ukrainian tanks, nine armored combat vehicles and eight pick-up trucks in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 250 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed four Ukrainian armored combat vehicles, one Ukrainian Grad MLRS, one Ukrainian self-propelled artillery station and twelve other vehicles in the DPR and in the LPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 100 foreign mercenaries and militants from Ukrainian Nazi formations, as well destroyed 10 Ukrainian armored combat vehicles in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed one Ukrainian tank, an infantry combat vehicle, four pick up trucks and two US-made M777 howitzers in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed eight Ukrainian armored combat vehicles, two Ukrainian artillery systems and ten other vehicles in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Air Forces hit a Ukrainian command post and 67 Ukrainian artillery units at their firing positions in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated a Ukrainian ammunition depot, as well as destroyed a Ukrainian Msta-B howitzer and two other Ukrainian vehicles in the Zaporozhye region

▪️Russian Forces hit a Ukrainian artillery ammunition depot, eliminating up to 120 HIMARS rockets, 250 Smerch rockets and two transport-charging vehicles;

▪️Russian Air Forces shot down one Ukrainian UAV in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian air defense destroyed 16 Ukrainian UAVs, as well as intercepted six HIMARS rockets, two Olkha rockets, one HARM rocket and one Tochka – U ballistic missile.

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British King's Counsel Alper Ali Riza, in an article for a European newspaper, alleges the US and Europe are behind the unleashing of the Ukrainian crisis.

▪️ Riza believes that the EU and Washington could have prevented the conflict before the start of the hostilities.

💬 "A wiser and more pragmatic British government, under strong American leadership, could have deterred Russia from taking decisive steps, instead of unwisely insisting on the sovereign right of every country to join NATO, regardless of Moscow's security concerns", Ali Riza says

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⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting with members of Russia’s Security Council next week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says

❗️Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service only has indirect evidence of the connection between Truss’ “It’s done” message sent to Blinken, and the explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines - Chief of Russian Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin said

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📹The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing how Russian Msta-B artillery units destroy Ukrainian artillery firing positions

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🇷🇸 Serbia has rejected a peaceful settlement plan on Kosovo and Metohija proposed by France and Germany as it implies that the breakaway province will become a UN member without a formal recognition by Belgrade, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Sunday.

🗣 "Its starting point is that the independence of Kosovo is already a done deal, but we do not accept that," Dacic told a Serbian newspaper.

▪️ The initiative suggested that Belgrade would get a fast-track to EU membership in exchange for Kosovo's accession to the UN, the report said.

💬 "The conclusion of National Security Council is that this proposal is unacceptable for us and we all voted 'yes' for this conclusion… And while recognizing it or not in a formal sense, agreeing that Kosovo is a member of the UN is very difficult for us," the foreign minister said.

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⚡️Three people killed in Tanzania plane crash - Fire and Rescue service

⚡️ A train derailed in downtown Seoul, leaving 30 people injured, reports say

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❗️🇪🇺President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said that next week, she will present a 18 billion euro Ukraine aid plan for 2023

Previously, it had been reported by a US media outlet that European leaders fear citizens’ anger over the hefty sums needed ‘to rebuild Ukraine’

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