❗️Confirmed: US President Joe Biden has made an unannounced visit to Kiev

📹 Russia’s Su-35S on combat sorties as part of the special military operation (video courtesy of Russian MoD)

Multipurpose fighter jets patrolled a target area and covered the actions of bomber and ground-attack aircraft, as well as helicopters.

During one of the sorties, an AFU aircraft was timely detected and eliminated.

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💭🇮🇳🇪🇺 Indian FM's European mindset remark echoed in Munich Security Report 2023

German Chancellor Olaf Sholz noted that India's FM had a point when he said, “Europe has to get out of the mindset that Europe’s problems are the world’s problems, but the world’s problems are not Europe’s problems.”

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❗️ Biden: US to stay with Ukraine "for as long as it takes."

"Billions will be allocated to Ukraine in the form of budget aid," US President also said.

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S.Korean Ruling Party Head Calls For Development of National Nuclear Arms

Seoul should consider acquiring its own nuclear capabilities to successfully deter a threat posed by Pyongyang, if the current measures are not sufficient enough to effectively respond to it, Chung Jin-suk, the leader of the South Korean ruling People Power Party (PPP), said on Monday.

"We need to seriously consider developing our own nuclear capabilities if such a response [to North Korea's nuclear threats using Seoul's existent deterrence system] is insufficient," Chung said at a party meeting.

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⚡️ Biden says US and allies have promised to transfer about 700 tanks, thousands of armored vehicles, more than 2 million shells to Ukraine.

A plaque dedicated to Joe Biden have been installed on Kiev’s ‘Alley of Courage’.

🥴 Any ideas where does this QR code lead to?

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⚡️ Joe Biden has left Kiev: White House

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

▪️Russian air defense systems destroyed 15 Ukrainian drones;

▪️Russian forces destroyed 100 Ukrainian military personnel near Krasny Liman (DPR);

▪️Russian forces destroyed up to 50 Ukrainian military personnel, one tank and three vehicles near Kupyansk (Kharkov region);

▪️Russian troops destroyed over 115 military personnel in Donetsk direction;

▪️Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 aircraft near the city of Izyum in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian forces destroyed up to 60 military personnel in the Donetsk direction and in the Zaporozhye region.

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"P" for priorities?

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North Korea May Turn Pacific Into 'Firing Range', Kim Jong-un's Sister Warns

Kim Yo-jong, a top North Korean politician and sister of the country’s leader Kim Jong-un, has issued a dire warning as the United States continues to flex its military muscles near North Korea’s border.

"The frequency of using the Pacific as our firing range depends upon the U.S. forces' action character," she said. "We are well aware of the movement of U.S. forces' strategic strike means, (which are) recently getting brisk around the Korean Peninsula."

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Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Denies Reports of Enriching Uranium to 84% Purity

Reports in Western media claiming that Tehran has enriched uranium to 84% distort the reality as the country has never gone beyond the enrichment level of 60%, Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman of the the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said on Monday.

"What matters is the final product and the Islamic Republic of Iran has never embarked on [uranium] enrichment at a level above 60 percent," Kamalvandi said, adding that the report published by a US media outlet was aimed at "distorting the realities."

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NATO 'Carrier Killer' and 'Killjoy': What is Russia's Hypersonic Kinzhal Missile?

Moscow has already successfully used Kinzhal missiles in a combat situation amid the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine.

Russia's Rostec state corporation head Sergey Chemezov announced on Sunday that his company had further increased the production of the Kinzhal (Dagger)
hypersonic missiles.

So what is the Kinzhal missile and can it be referred to as a state-of-the-art weapon?

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How does Russia build relations with other countries and what is its main difference from the US? Jim Jatras, former US diplomat and senior foreign policy advisor, joins our podcast to answer those questions.

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🤔 Was Biden's "surprise" visit to Kiev not a surprise after all?

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has revealed that Washington notified Russia of the president's trip to Ukraine a few hours before his departure in order to avoid a "conflict situation."

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