🇷🇺🇱🇦 Lao People's Democratic Republic hosts opening ceremony of joint Russian-Laotian Laros-2022 exercises

"These joint exercises are becoming a tradition. This is the third time our units will practise joint counter-terrorism operation." said Major General Vladimir Kulikov, senior task force leader.

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

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed two armored combat vehicles and two pick-up trucks near Kupyansk;

▪️Russian troops eliminated more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed two Ukrainian infantry combat vehicles and four other vehicles near Krasny Liman;

▪️The Russian Army eliminated more than 100 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed a Ukrainian tank, five armored combat vehicles and five other vehicles near Donetsk;

▪️Russian Forces hit ten Ukrainian command posts, as well as 62 Ukrainian artillery units at their firing positions;

▪️The Russian Army destroyed Ukraine' "Osa-AKM” anti-aircraft missile system in the LPR;

▪️Russian troops destroyed a US-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated a Ukrainian “Pelikan” radar station in the Dnepropetrovsk region;

▪️The Russian Army destroyed Ukrainian artillery ammunition depot in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️The Russian air defense destroyed nine Ukrainian UAVs, as well as intercepted two “Uragan” shells.

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❗️An update from the Russian Foreign Ministry:

▪️Moscow believes that New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) consultations will not take place before the year's end;

▪️Russia & US have "deep disagreements" on the implementation of New START. Currently, Washington does not want to compromise;

▪️There are no signals that the US is ready to resume negotiations with Russia on strategic stability;

▪️Russian Deputy Foreign Minister on prospects of Russia-US prisoner exchange by the end of the year: there is always a chance.

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⚽️ A Sputnik correspondent captured the atmosphere among FIFA World Cup fans in Qatar

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⚡️Twitter Abandons Its Policy Targeting 'COVID-19 Misinformation', Statement Says

⚡️Russian Deputy Foreign Minister: Russia is committed to START-3 and the postponement of the meeting of the commission does not violate it.

⚡️The IAEA will strengthen its presence at all Ukrainian nuclear power plants, Director General Rafael Grossi says

"People came out of this office covered with blood": A resident of Donetsk speaks about the Ukrainian shelling of an office building which injured five people.

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📹WATCH: Russian Su-30SM and Su35S aircraft in combat action as part of the special military operation in Ukraine (video courtesy of Russia’s MoD)

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🌋The Mauna Loa volcano in Hilo, Hawaii, erupted on Monday for the first time in 40 years.

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📌Have a look at Sputnik's infographic showing what types of weapons Taiwan ordered from the United States.

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❗️If NATO supplies Patriot complexes to Kiev and provides its personnel, they will immediately become a legitimate target for Russian forces, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said amid Pentagon's statement saying that the US doesn't rule out providing Patriot surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine.

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⚡️The US does not plan to supply its Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine yet, but it will continue consultations - Pentagon

"I don't think the weapons that have been sent already to Ukraine have been tracked that well, just sort of like a fire-and-forget kind of mentality that, hey, we did a good thing, we sent all these weapons over there," the Director of Veterans for Peace Garett Reppenhagen said.

💬"In Afghanistan, we developed a special program to track these systems. And that program wasn't necessarily sync up to the systems that were used in the United States. So obviously, due to power failures and other issues in Afghanistan and then just the habit of using analog records and the lack of an ability to have those systems match up, Afghans were just basically going back to paper and pencil to record all these systems and then later had to manually data enter those."

🎧Listen to more of Garett Reppnhagen's analysis in our podcast: NYT Defends Assange, Hawaiian Volcano Erupts, Protests in China

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🇨🇳China Launches Shenzhou 15 Manned Spacecraft

🚀China launched Shenzhou 15 manned spacecraft on Tuesday from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome in northwestern Gansu Province, it will take a crew of three to the Tiangong Orbital Station, the launch is broadcast by China Central Television.

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‼️Pentagon: No Plans to Provide Patriot Missiles to Ukraine

The United States does not have any plans at this time to provide Patriot surface-to-air missile systems to Ukraine, Defense Department spokesperson Pat Ryder said on Tuesday.

"Air defense continues to be a top priority for the Defense Department and for the international community when it comes to supporting Ukraine. In terms of any type of Patriot battery from the US, right now, we have no plans to provide Patriot batteries to Ukraine, but again, we’ll continue to have those discussions," Ryder said during a press briefing.

Advanced systems such as the Patriot missile system require significant maintenance and training, which is accounted for when determining what aid to provide Ukraine, Ryder said.