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🔺To kick things off, we’ll be discussing the new article by Seymour Hersh on Nord Stream
🔺Next, we’ll continue monitoring the Trump indictment as well as a political scandal in North Carolina
🔺Finally, we’ll speak about Macron’s visit to China

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⚡️ Lukashenko said he agrees with Macron on the issue of nuclear weapons: the Americans should withdraw them from the countries where they deployed them

▪️ Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus called on behalf of eco-activist Greta Thunberg and her father Svante to Hollywood actor Will Smith and his son Jaden.

▪️ The faux Swedish family of environmental activists gave the Smiths "good news": Greta and Will's son Jaden allegedly love each other, want to get married, and Greta is also pregnant!

▪️ Was the actor happy about this prospect? Is he ready to become a grandfather and what will they name their son? Check out the prank

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⚡️Around 100 rockets launched from Lebanon towards Israel on Thursday: media reports

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❗️ Sputnik correspondent from Lebanon reports: The IDF launched an artillery strike on the al-Layl valley in the south of the country after launching rockets from Lebanon

📹 Videos appeared on social media showing Israeli Air Force fighter jets flying over the recently-closed Ben Gurion Airport

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❗️ Flights from Ben-Gurion airport in Tel-Aviv are frozen

❗️Northen Israel, videos appeared on social media

❗️ Netanyahu convened an operational meeting with the leadership of security forces after Israel's shelling of Lebanese territory, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office said

📹🇷🇺 Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu inspected the workshops for the production of modern weapons at the enterprises of the defense industry in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

▪️ The Minister of Defense was informed that in recent months the volume of manufactured products, including artillery and aviation ammunition, has increased.

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Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, joined us to discuss President Zelensky's recent trip to Poland

🗣️”He [Zelensky] knows he cannot be a member of NATO. He knows he cannot be a member of the European Union. And he knows now that Bakhmut has fallen, that he has lost this war. So one last act of desperation: he is seeking a political union with Poland,” he stated

🎧Listen to more of Ritter’s analysis in our podcast The Critical Hour

❗️ Key statements by President Putin at the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State:

▪️ We are united by spiritual and moral values, and this is what we are building the Union State on;

▪️ Russia and Belarus are building up and will continue to build up cooperation in the defense and security spheres;

▪️ The project to support schools in Donbass will be financed from the budget of the Union State;

▪️ An agreement on the formation of a single electric power market of Russia and Belarus is being prepared for signing.

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A political science professor, Glenn Diesen, joined us to discuss the formalization of Finland’s membership in NATO

🎧Listen to more of Diesen’s analysis in our podcast Fault Lines

🇫🇷🇧🇾 I agree with him, therefore, it is necessary to withdraw all nuclear weapons of Americans from five or six countries where they are stationed, Belorussian president Alexander Lukashenko said.

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📽 Bollywood is shooting the "Snow Flower" film in the Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk🇷🇺, Russia's Ministry of Culture told Sputnik.

🇮🇳🇷🇺 "Indian producers have expressed their willingness to participate in full-scale tours of Russia: in particular, foreign filmmakers have shown particular interest in the possibility of filming in Moscow, Khanty-Mansiysk, Kaliningrad, as well as in other regions of Russia," the ministry's press service said.

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⚡️ Kiev deliberately destroys its military with artillery fire to prevent attempts to abandon positions and retreat under the onslaught of Russian forces, the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation stated.

A political science professor, Glenn Diesen, joined us to discuss the Nord Stream pipeline detonation and the US involvement, according to Sy Hersh’s new article

🎧Listen to more of Diesen’s analysis in our podcast Fault Lines

❗️(1) Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️ In the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to 50 troops, two armored combat vehicles, two other vehicles, as well as a US-made AN/TPQ-36 radar system;

▪️In addition, today at about 8.30 am, the units covering the State border together with the border patrol of the border department of the FSB of Russia in the Bryansk region, stopped an attempt to infiltrate the sabotage and reconnaissance group of Ukrainian forces numbering more than 15 militants on the territory of the Russian Federation in Bryansk region;

▪️In the Krasno-Liman direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to 80 soldiers, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, a Nona self-propelled mortar, as well as D-20 and D-30 howitzers were destroyed;

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❗️(2) Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops destroyed up to 140 Ukrainian soldiers, three armored combat vehicles, eight vehicles, one Polish-made Krab self-propelled howitzer, Gvozdika and Akatsiya self-propelled howitzers, a D-20 howitzer, as well as a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station and one ammunition depot;

▪️Russian troops destroyed up to 35 Ukrainian troops, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, as well as D-20 and D-30 in the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;

▪️In the Kherson direction, Ukrainian losses amounted 20 soldiers, two vehicles and an Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer during a day;

▪️Russian air defense hit eleven HIMARS multiple rockets;

▪️In addition, eleven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the Kharkiv region, LPR and DPR.

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