⚡️Russia's Foreign Ministry statements on the current situation concerning the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP):

▪️Kiev continues "playing with fire", carrying out rude and irresponsible provocations against the ZNPP;

▪️The international community should know who is behind the new attack on the ZNPP. Russia has transferred all the data to the IAEA;

▪️After the shelling from Kiev, the ZNPP was teetering on a critical line, which could be followed by a man-made disaster.

⚡️Polish court has overturned the decision to impose fines on Gazprom and its European partners for Nord Stream 2 construction - regulator

🇨🇳🇷🇺China urges members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to consider its joint resolution with Russia on North Korea to mitigate the humanitarian situation in the country and promote a settlement in the region, Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Zhang Jun said on Monday.

💬“The DPRK [the Democratic People's Republic of Korea] related draft resolution, jointly sponsored by China and Russia in the Security Council, will help mitigate the humanitarian situation in DPRK, create an atmosphere for dialogue and promote the realization of the regional settlement. We hope that all parties can positively consider it,” Zhang said during a UNSC meeting.

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📹WATCH: 🐘Two male elephants were caught on camera in Thailand fighting for the heart of a female.

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💬"I don't know what could be in the documents and I have every reason to suspect that they could scrub everything out of there. If you can make the president's brain disappear, which they did in this case, then you can make documents, any documents disappear or you can edit them however you want." Political scientist, host of the American Exception podcast, and author of the book of the same name Aaron Good said.

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🔺 We start off with updates from Ukraine - from videos showing Russian PoWs executed by Ukrainians to renewal shelling of Zaporozhye NPP
🔺 Then, Scott Ritter joins us to discuss how Ukraine and Poland try to ignite WW3
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⚽️Doha during FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, through the lens of a Sputnik photojournalist's camera

The 2022 FIFA World Cup kicked off in Qatar on Sunday with a spectacular opening ceremony inside Al Bayt Stadium in Doha. The very first match of the championship, of Group A, took place the very same day with Ecuador competing against Qatar; unfortunately, the host country lost 0-2.

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📹WATCH: Russian MLRS in combat action as part of the special military operation in Ukraine (video courtesy of Russia’s MoD)

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⚽️The 2022 FIFA World Cup will be the last in the career of Argentine striker Lionel Messi, he said on Monday at a press conference.

💬"This is surely my last World Cup, my last chance to win it."

📌In the first round of the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar, the Argentine team will play Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. The national teams of Poland and Mexico will also perform in Group C.

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📹The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing Russian mortar crews in combat action as part of the special military operation in Ukraine.

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📊Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is closing the polling gap with former President Donald Trump as he gets closer to a 2024 White House bid.

🤔Since last month, the Florida governor’s standing in a hypothetical 2024 Republican primary improved by 11 points, bringing him up to 28 percent, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll.

Trump’s support, meanwhile, plummeted 9 points to 46 percent.

💬“Month after month, DeSantis has been rising and now he is cutting significantly into Trump...If they both run, this will be quite a race and Trump could well lose.” Mark Penn, the co-director of the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, indicated.

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💬"Some of the files that are gone that I know of, they pertain to the travel records of William Harvey, a guy who was implicated pretty strongly by one of his closest colleagues in the CIA. He was asked, I believe it was in the House Select Committee, he was asked, do you think that Harvey was involved in the Kennedy assassination? And his response was, well, he's too young to have been involved in the McKinley assassination. And he also had made statements to the attesting to Harvey being in Dallas without any explanation in November, earlier in November of 1963. And Harvey was the guy who ran the ZR/RIFLE operation, which was an assassination operation to try to get Fidel Castro. And he was fired by Kennedy and he hated Kennedy and was a bit of a hard drinking psychopath." Political scientist Aaron Good said.

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China and Russia became “the driver” for US efforts to develop hypersonic weapons, said Vice Admiral Johnny Wolfe, United States Navy’s Strategic Systems head.

While Russia successfully tested their own hypersonic weapons and even deployed them in a combat situation, Washington is yet to match Moscow in that area.

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‼️UK Reportedly Supplied Laser-Guided Brimstone 2 Missiles to Ukraine

The UK has supplied laser-guided Brimstone 2 missiles to Ukraine, UK media reported.
The missile can travel at double the previous model's range.

The UK first supplied Brimstone missiles to Ukraine about six months ago. Ukrainian troops have modified trucks to serve as mobile launch platforms for the missiles that are usually launched from the air.