Russia will not allow the West to blow up any more gas pipelines: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaking at the Raisina Dialogue forum in New Delhi on how the Ukraine crisis has affected Russia’s energy interests

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❗️Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, urges Volodymyr Zelensky to surrender Artemovsk (Bakhmut) and allow Ukrainian forces to leave the city.

💬 “Whereas earlier the professional Ukrainian Army was fighting us, today we are witnessing more and more old people and children. They fight, but in Bakhmut [Artemovsk], their life is short, just a day or two. Give them the opportunity to leave the city. The city is in fact surrounded,” said Prigozhin.

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⚡️Moscow: Bryansk terror committed using NATO weapons, leading to question of alliance's culpability

❗️ Russian Foreign Ministry’s statements on the terrorist attack in Russia's Bryansk region:

▪️Kiev has repeatedly acknowledged that all its actions are carried out with the approval and support of the United States and other NATO countries, the murders in the Bryansk region were committed using NATO weapons;

▪️In this respect, the question arises about whether these states qualify as accomplices in such crimes and as sponsors of terrorism;

▪️The US continues to implement its plans to destroy the Russian Federation, pumping Kiev with weapons;

▪️Kiev's sanctions "for 50 years": Apparently reflects Kiev's assessment of how long the conflict will last.

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Ukrainian forces shell ZNPP security staff: Russia's nuclear energy corp.

Security staff at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant were shelled by the Ukrainians, Renault Kharchaa, a spokesman for Rosenergoatom, a subsidiary of the Russian state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, said on Friday.

"Our security staff, who ensure the process of meeting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, literally came under gunfire... I think that Russia will issue a protest on this matter. In our opinion, it is absolutely impossible not to respond to such armed provocations," Karchaa told to Russian media.

Even representatives of the Ukrainian side who participated in the rotation process "did not understand what was going on," which indicates a "complete lack of control" at this section of the line of contact, the official added.

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The mother of Fyodor, the 10-year-old boy who was wounded by Ukrainian terrorists in the Bryansk region, burst into tears while visiting him in the hospital

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Taliban* assembles its first attack UAV

🇦🇫 The body was based on the wreckage of an unknown drone. The project was funded by Ghulam Nabi Molin, a former spokesman for the Kabul Taliban* police,and the UAV bears the name of his Twitter account.

The vehicle can carry ammunition weighing up to 70kg and has a range of 700km. Its tail is similar to the MQ-1 Predator (nine of which were lost by the US in Afghanistan), although this drone is many times smaller. It hasn't been seen in the sky yet.

*Under UN sanctions

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

▪️The Russian Army eliminated up to 100 Ukrainian servicemen, a tank, three infantry fighting vehicles, two pick-up trucks, a self-propelled Akatsiya howitzer and a fighting vehicle equipped with a Grad multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS) - close to Kupyansk;

▪️Russian troops eliminated more then 200 Ukrainian servicemen, three infantry fighting vehicles, eight armored combat vehicles, two pick-ups and a D-20 howitzer in the Krasny Liman direction;

▪️In the Donetsk direction, up to 210 Ukrainian servicemen have been destroyed. Also destroyed were five armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, as well as a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount, a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, 2 fighting vehicle equipped with Grad MLRS, two D-30 howitzers, and a D-20 howitzer;

▪️The Russian Army also eliminated the Ukrainian army's mobile communication unit in the DPR's Avdeevka area;

▪️The Russian Army eliminated more than 70 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, two armored fighting vehicles, two pick-ups, a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer and a D-20 howitzer in the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye direction;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, six vehicles, a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, a Giatsint-B howitzer, a Msta-B howitzer and three D-30 howitzers in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Aerospace Forces have shot down an Su-24 airplane of belonging to the Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk direction;

▪️The Russian Army eliminated a HIMARS MLRS and 18 AFU UAVs in LPR, DPR and Kherson region.

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🗣️“The patience is running thin…”

Labor attorney, human rights activist, and author Daniel Kovalik joins us to talk about the public discontent over the US’s aid to Ukraine

🎧Listen to more of Kovalik’s analysis in our podcast Political misfits:SCOTUS Rejects Mass Surveillance Inquiry, Indigenous Struggles, G20