❗️Xi Jinping has held a telephone conversation with Zelensky, Chinese media reports

The Chinese president said that regardless of the international situation, Beijing is ready to cooperate with Kiev. He added that China would send a representative to visit Ukraine and other countries for consultations on a settlement of the Ukraine crisis.

▪️Xi-Zelensky talks took place at initiative of Ukrainian side, Chinese Foreign Ministry said.

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🤔 Checkmate..?

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

▪️ Russian troops prevented attempts by Ukrainian forces to counterattack in the DPR;

▪️ Two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were destroyed in the DPR and LPR;

▪️ Two command and observation posts of Ukrainian special forces units were hit in the Kherson region;

▪️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 65 soldiers and an Akatsia self-propelled gun near Krasny Liman;

▪️ The actions of four Ukrainian sabotage groups were stopped in the LPR and Kharkov region;

▪️ Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft in the Kherson region;

▪️ In the Kherson region, the Armed Forces of Russia destroyed up to 30 Ukrainian soldiers and an M777 artillery system;

▪️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 300 soldiers and mercenaries in the DPR;

▪️ Losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the LPR amounted to more than 40 servicemen.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 At the test site in Russia, the Belarusian military studied the use of nuclear weapons in detail for the Iskander-M complex, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

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Serbian Sputnik and RT must be silenced - EU

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament has approved a report in which the Serbian authorities are required to close Sputnik and RT in the country, @sputniksrbija reports. The prospects for joining the EU depend on Belgrade's decision.

The authors of the document strongly dislike that Serbs can still hear an alternative opinion to the European agenda.

At the same time, despite all the efforts of Europe, the popularity of Russian media in Serbia is growing. Sputnik programs are broadcast daily by 25 radio stations and 27 TV channels, and its editor-in-chief, Lubinka Milincic, is regularly featured on TV and radio as an expert.

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Tucker Carlson could no longer be tolerated by ‘corrupt US media and political establishment’

According to Scott Bennett, former US Army psychological warfare officer, Tucker Carlson's ouster spells "the death of American media."

Bennett believes that the wall against the 1984 George Orwell-type idiocy that the US elite and corporations have been trying to degenerate Americans into, built up by Carlson, was detonated by the Dominion Voting Machines-Fox News false lawsuit.

"He exposed the US biochemical labs in Ukraine and their connection to the Democrat Party, President Barak Obama, Vice President Biden, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Bill Gates, and other US government agencies and pharmaceutical companies," Bennett stated.

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🇵🇱 Poles protest against "Ukrainization" of Poland

The Poles believe that it is time to stop the flow of Ukrainians arriving in Poland.

They are demanding that Ukrainian refugees be expelled and end financial aid from Polish taxpayers.

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❗️A MiG-31 fighter jet crashed in a deserted area in the Murmansk region, Russia. The two pilots ejected, reports the Russian Defense Ministry

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🗣️”Where is that [information war] working? Only in the West. Only in Europe and in the United States. The rest of the world has not bought this message. They can see through what is going on”: veteran journalist and editor at Consortium News Joe Lauria speaks about the US information war against Russia

🎧Listen to more of Joe Lauria’s analysis in our podcast The Final Countdown