CIA allegedly solicited signatures for the 2020 letter from 51 intelligence officials falsely claiming that emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian disinformation

The House Judiciary Committee’s 65-page “interim” report, a copy of which was seen by a US media outlet, will be published today.

The document, noscriptd “The Hunter Biden Statement: How Senior Intelligence Community Officials and the Biden Campaign Worked to Mislead American Voters,” claims, in particular, that the intel officials’ letter “was a political operation to help elect” Democrat Joe Biden in November 2022.

The report alleges that a CIA employee “may have helped in the effort to solicit signatures for the [officials’] statement” and accuses former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the CIA Mike Morell and the Biden campaign of conspiring to swiftly get the letter approved.

“One signer of the statement, former CIA analyst David Cariens, disclosed to the Committees that a CIA employee affiliated with the agency’s Prepublication Classification Review Board (PCRB) informed him of the existence of the statement and asked if he would sign it. The Committees have requested additional material from the CIA, which has ignored the request to date,” the report purportedly reads.

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Russian Kornet ATGM crews in action during the special military operation

During the battle, the anti-tank missile systems obliterated Ukrainian firing positions as well as armoured facilities, permanent firing points, and other engineering structures using roving gun tactics.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷🇮🇷🇸🇾 Foreign Ministers of Russia, Turkiye, Iran and Syria holding talks in Moscow: Sputnik correspondent

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❗️ Key statements made by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov at the meeting with the foreign ministers of Turkiye, Iran and Syria:

▪️ Lavrov expressed hope that the elections in Turkiye would be held without outside interference;

▪️ The Americans have begun to create the so-called "army of free Syria" in the vicinity of Raqqa, Syria, with the participation of representatives of local Arab tribes, Daesh* militants and other terrorist organizations;

▪️ A roadmap for a Syrian solution should be prepared for the next meeting of the foreign ministers of Turkiye, Syria, Iran and Russia. It will later be presented to the presidents of the [relevant countries];

▪️ The process of normalization of relations between Turkiye and Syria opens up new opportunities for the Astana format to resolve the Syrian crisis.

* terrorist organisation banned in Russia

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Pakistan to buy oil 🛢 from Russia for yuan on permanent basis: Minister of Energy of Pakistan tells foreign media

💬 “We hope that if this becomes a long-term arrangement, it’ll become a rupee and Chinese currency transaction,” the country’s energy minister said. “And perhaps that currency swap needs to become larger in order for us to take advantage of other opportunities that might arise,” he added.

🇷🇺🇵🇰 In January, representatives of the governments of Pakistan and Russia reached a conceptual agreement on the supply of Russian oil and agreed to coordinate logistics, insurance, payment and export volumes before they start. Pakistan must draw up a comprehensive energy security plan, providing for the imports of oil, liquefied natural gas, pipeline gas and other types of fuel from Russia.

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❗️Russia to denounce the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

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🗣 The Americans have begun to create the so-called "Free Syria Army" in the vicinity of Raqqa, Syria, with the participation of representatives of local Arab tribes, Daesh* militants and other terrorist organizations, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says at a meeting with the foreign ministers of Turkiye, Iran and Syria

* terrorist organisation banned in Russia

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⚡🇵🇰 Pakistan deploys army troops to violence-hit Punjab to maintain law and order after Imran Khan’s arrest yesterday: media

Around 1,000 people have reportedly been arrested in the province in connection with clashes on late Tuesday.

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📹 The Russian MoD has published footage filmed by Russian paratroopers themselves as they engage in battle.

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❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

The West did not show the proper reaction to Budanov's words calling for murder of Russians;

Work on the grain deal is underway. The position of Russia is well-known to both specialists and non-specialists;

The arrival of CIS leaders at the Victory Parade in Moscow suggests that their countries have the political will to preserve historical memory.

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Turkish interior minister accuses US of meddling in presidential election

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has accused the US of planning to interfere in the country's upcoming presidential election and blamed Western media for manipulating coverage of the vote.

Soylu also accused the US of being behind previous military coups in Turkiye and claimed that the West has been infiltrating its political system since 1960. He stated that the country has rejected US mandates and that the West is trying to take revenge for this.

Soylu believes that with a victory in the 2023 election for incumbent Erdogan, Turkiye will begin a hundred-year stability period.

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❗️ According to media reports, militants in the Gaza Strip are firing rockets at Israeli cities in response to yesterday's IDF special operation. Several dozen rockets were fired from Gaza at the south and center of Israel.

*On May 9, the Israel Defense Forces launched an airstrike on an Islamic Jihad unit carrying anti-tank guided missiles in the southern Gaza Strip.

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Fact check: Ukraine didn't shoot down Russia's Kinzhal hypersonic missile

A media report claiming that Ukraine downed a Russian Kh-47 Kinzhal missile using a US-made Patriot missile recently emerged.

A military expert explained to Sputnik why it's technically impossible and why such information appeared in the media (spoiler: the Patriot is not as effective as some would like to see it).

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"You can run, you can hide, but in the end, Israel will get you": Israel's PM Netanyahu's yesterday's message following a series of rocket strikes against Palestinian Jihad

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👶 The first children from three parents have been born in Britain, a UK newspaper reports.

▪️ In 2015, the UK Parliament allowed artificial insemination using DNA samples from three people.

▪️ The technique, known as mitochondrial donation treatment (MDT), uses tissue from the eggs of healthy female donors to create IVF embryos that are free from harmful mutations their mothers carry and are likely to pass on to their children.

▪️ Authorities confirmed that "less than five" such children had already been born in the country, but did not disclose details.

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❗️The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ Russia’s operational-tactical and army aviation and artillery have engaged the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkov region. The enemy suffered losses of up to 50 Ukrainian troops, two armored fighting vehicles, and one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces have inflicted fire damage on enemy manpower and hardware in the DPR and LPR. The enemy suffered losses of up to 60 Ukrainian troops, two armored fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, as well as one D-20 howitzer.

▪️ Assault detachments continued their offensive in the northwest and west part of the city of Artyomovsk. Airborne troops support the action of the assault detachments paralyzing the enemy on the flanks. Russian aviation conducted ten sorties in this area during the past 24 hours.

▪️ Russia’s operational-tactical and army aviation and artillery inflicted fire damage on the 67th Mechanized Brigade, 80th Air Assault Brigade, and 5th Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR. The enemy has suffered losses of over 240 Ukrainian troops and mercenaries, three armored fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, as well as one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system in the past 24 hours.

▪️ Aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems of the Russian Armed Forces carried out an attack against Ukrainian units in the DPR and Zaporozhye region. Up to 70 Ukrainian troops, one command post vehicle, three armored fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, and one Msta-B howitzer have been neutralized during the day.

▪️ Russian troops have neutralized up to 80 Ukrainian troops, four motor vehicles, and one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system during the day in Kherson region.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Russian forces have engaged 98 Ukrainian artillery units, manpower, and hardware in 119 areas during the day.

▪️ Russian air defense units have shot down one Su-27 airplane of the Ukrainian Air Force in Kherson region.

▪️ Air defense systems have downed four HIMARS projectiles during the day.

▪️ Some 420 airplanes and 230 helicopters, 4,062 unmanned aerial vehicles, 421 air defense missile systems, 9,067 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,098 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 4,780 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 10,103 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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❗️ US congressional investigation shows Biden family received over $10 million from foreign sources, congressmen do not consider it legal

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Kremlin on Warsaw's hostile actions: Poland has hated Russians for centuries

Poland has been expressing hatred toward Russians for centuries, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, an aggressive crowd blocked the way for Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev at a memorial cemetery in Warsaw where he arrived to lay flowers on Victory Day. The crowd demanded that the ambassador remove the St. George ribbon from his jacket. Andreev failed to lay a wreath at the cemetery and had to leave the memorial.

"It is not even Russophobia anymore, it is a process on the verge of madness that is happening in Poland. We know that throughout history, Poland has been slipping into this madness of hatred of Russians from time to time, this has been reoccurring for many centuries," Peskov said, answering the question of how the Kremlin assesses the behavior in Poland.

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