📌 The latest statements from Russia's foreign ministry:

▪️Escalation on the Korean Peninsula is quite likely, but Russia hopes that situation will not deteriorate to dangerous level;

▪️Russian foreign ministry on Paris' attempts to counter Russian media in Africa: the case is obviously unpromising;

▪️Russian foreign ministry on possibility of severing relations with Poland, Baltic states: Moscow does not support the idea of severing diplomatic relations;

▪️Foreign Ministry on retaliatory measures in connection with the detention of the editor-in-chief of Sputnik Lithuania: Russia will continue to take diplomatic and economic steps;

▪️Russian foreign ministry on the prospect of negotiations about Ukraine: Russia has not refused a dialogue with Europe on security, has not lost hope that there will be someone to with whom to negotiate

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Iran's Abbas Moghtadaei, Deputy Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, told Sputnik that there was no Israeli trace in the drone attack on the Iranian Defense Ministry's facility in Isfahan:

🗣"If Israel had done it, it would have proudly announced to the whole world the evidence of its operation. So far, these are just empty statements."

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⚡️Kremlin on BoJo's claims about Putin's threat of missile strike: This is not true, or rather lie

Putin told Johnson that if Ukraine joins NATO, the potential deployment of NATO or US missiles at Russia’s borders would mean that any missile would reach Moscow in a matter of minutes, the Kremlin says

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the German industry has a special interest in Chilean lithium and is ready to support Chile in its mining activities.

🗣"German companies are very interested in expanding cooperation, especially in the field of lithium, and we want to support Chile on the path to sustainable mining," Scholz said on Sunday at a joint press conference with Chile’s President Gabriel Boric, broadcast on social media.

Previously, US Army General Laura Richardson said during a conversation hosted by the Atlantic Council that Latin American countries are important as they "have the lithium triangle, which is necessary for technology nowadays".

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❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️The West’s constant supply of arms to Ukraine is dead-end situation that leads to escalation;

▪️It is difficult to talk about prospects of a Russia-NATO dialog, the alliance has long since ceased any substantive discussions;

▪️Russian special services are analyzing information on the attacks on Iran, Moscow condemns such actions against sovereign state;

▪️Putin and Erdogan have special relationship based on mutual trust and respect, fulfillment of obligations is valued mutually;

▪️No new developments in Moscow-Paris relations, but dialog can potentially continue.

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❗️Russia's Lavrov is sure that the United States will impede Russia-Pakistan cooperation in the energy sector.

At the same time, he expressed hope for progress on the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline.

On its part, the Pakistani FM expressed hope that third countries would not interfere in oil trade between Moscow and Islamabad.

⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry: It is too early to say if Vladimir Putin will take part in the G20 summit in India in September, it will depend on the Russian president's schedule

⚡️Preliminary data point to Israeli involvement in Isfahan attack, investigation will continue, Iranian official says

⚡️ New US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy has arrived for the first time at Russian Foreign Ministry to meet with Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov

❗️Lynne Tracy's arrival at Russian Foreign Ministry was met with protesters chanting "war is a US business" and "America is a terrorist country," while holding placards “why did you blow up Nord Stream”

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❗️Russian MoD's latest statements after receiving new information about key individuals involved in US military biological projects in Ukraine:

▪️The Russian military received more than 20,000 documents and materials about US military biological program in Ukraine;

▪️US used material base of chemical, pharmaceutical enterprises in Poland, Baltic states when curtailing military biological work in Ukraine;

▪️US actively transferring bioresearch not completed in Ukraine to central Asia, Eastern Europe, building up contacts with Africa, Asia-Pacific;

▪️EU actively promotes initiative providing launch of biolabs funded by EU in former Soviet states;

▪️US delivered equipment for military biological research to Poland and the Baltic States from Ukraine;

▪️The financing imposed by the West forces the countries of the post-Soviet space to hide the true nature of bio-research;

▪️Ukrainian military biology specialists are employed in West so that Russia does not receive evidence of illegal activity by them

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▪️US Ecohealth alliance specialists looking for new coronavirus strains, mechanisms of their transmission from animals to humans since 2015;

▪️Spread of CODVID-19 pandemic as per 2019 exercises held in New York raises questions on its deliberate nature and possible US involvement;

▪️Ukrainian soldiers have been a target group in US experiments with HIV infection conducted in Ukraine since 2019;

▪️Russian forces have revealed facts regarding the smuggling of morphine into the areas of combat operations by the Ukrainian military;

▪️Russian forces have obtained information on the use of psychostimulants and drugs such as methadone and amphetamines by the Ukrainian military;

▪️A large-scale burial of the remnants of biomaterials was discovered in Lisichansk at the beginning of 2023;

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🇨🇳 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that China poses a major "challenge" to the alliance.

💬 "China is also a challenge because we see that China is investing heavily in new modern military capabilities, including long-range missiles that can reach all NATO territory, of course also this region [the Korean Peninsula], advanced nuclear weapons, naval capabilities," Stoltenberg said.

In June 2022, NATO adopted a new strategic concept at its summit in Madrid. The concept is the organization’s key document, which confirms the alliance’s values and goals, and presents the collective estimate of the security situation. The 2022 concept says that China's "stated ambitions and coercive policies challenge" NATO’s interests, security and values.

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❗️Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, the Kremlin said. They discussed cooperation within the OPEC+ framework to ensure the stability of the international oil market

🐻 Fyodor the Bear from the Moscow region was playing with a tire, but little did he know it could turn into a life-threatening quest.

The poor creature — of about 400-kg — got stuck inside the tire, but luckily, local professionals came to the rescue.

The bear is now all safe and sound — we can confirm it 🙏

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