Troops with the British special forces began training so-called "moderate" Syrian rebels in 2011, conducting cross border raids into the country in 2012

A comprehensive analysis by the group of credible reports on covert British military operations in over a dozen countries over the past dozen years found that special forces units were "regularly" deployed into Syria despite explicit prohibitions on doing so in a 2013 parliament ruling.

These operations included the provision of military equipment, training and intelligence assistance to Syrian rebel commanders in Lebanon and Turkiye at the start of the conflict, and Special Air Service (SAS) and Special Boat Service (SBS) raids into the country via Jordan starting in the summer of 2012.

The non-profit’s analysis confirmed that before the 2013 parliamentary vote, special forces troops and MI6 agents had been deployed to the region in order to mark Syrian air defenses that might be used to target British jets.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Premier of the State Council of China Li Qiang meets Russian PM Mishustin in Beijing

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📹 The 9th Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps has published footage showing the destruction of Ukrainian troops using kamikaze drones

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❗️ Key statements made by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who gave a video address to the participants of the 11th International Meeting of High Representatives in charge of security issues

▪️ Growing instability in the world is largely due to the desire of the United States and its allies to maintain dominance, ignoring the sovereignty of others;

▪️ Growing instability in the world is accompanied by attempts by the United States and a number of Western countries to benefit from the crises provoked by them;

▪️ Russia is ready for close interaction with all interested countries in confronting common challenges to humanity;

▪️ Russia will strengthen ties with the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America in every possible way;

▪️ I am sure that Russia and its allies will achieve the formation of a more just world; the discriminatory model of development will irreversibly go away.

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❗️ Key statements made by Russian FM Lavrov at the meeting with the heads of executive bodies of the CIS, the CSTO, the ECE and the Union State:

▪️ The West at the G7 summit has shown that it views Russia and China as strategic adversaries posing an existential threat;

▪️ The NATO countries are, in fact, de jure participants in the conflict in Ukraine, this increases the risk of a clash between nuclear powers;

▪️ The United States is purposefully escalating the situation around Taiwan;

▪️ The Western governments ignore or grossly distort Russian signals about the inadmissibility of a direct clash between nuclear powers;

▪️ Today the need to update the architecture of international security comes to the fore;

▪️ Moscow calls on Brussels and Washington to abandon unilateral decisions of force in the interests of reducing international tension;

▪️ Pentagon creates microbiological labs to create bioweapons' components.

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❗️LIVE NOW: Russian PM Mishustin holds talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping
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❗️ Russia and China will rebuff the aspirations of a number of countries to impose their will using sanctions, Russian PM Mishustin said at the meeting with Xi Jinping

▪️ Mishustin added that he is sure that Russia and China will create favorable conditions for confident progress towards their shared strategic goals.

Russia's S-350 Vityaz surface-to-air missile (SAM) system shot down Ukrainian aircraft in the special operation zone in fully automatic mode, without the participation of an operator

A well-informed source told Sputnik that “for the first time in the world the Vityaz performed the fully automated detection, tracking and destruction of Ukrainian air targets in combat; the surface-to-air missiles downed several Ukrainian warplanes and unmanned aerial vehicles.”

According to the insider, "the automatic mode was implemented on the basis of the principle that a person does not cancel the decisions of the SAM’s artificial intelligence elements within the framework of the emerging air combat situation, namely, an operator just did not interfere in the running of the system, thus confirming the operation algorithm chosen by the machine.”

The sources explained that the Vityaz simultaneously worked in active and passive radar modes, something that boosts the SAM’s jamming immunity, as well as its ability to detect and classify targets.

The S-350 Vityaz, which entered service with the Russian armed forces in 2019, is capable of effectively destroying both ballistic and aerodynamic targets.

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😲 The driver who crashed yesterday into the fence near the White House in Washington admitted that he wanted to kill the US president and "seize power."

The man reportedly admires the Nazis and, according to him, intended to "stand at the head of the nation."

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❗️ Xi Jinping, at the meeting with Russian PM Mishustin, said that high-level relations between Russia and China are being developed, and that multifaceted cooperation is being confidently implemented

▪️ Xi Jinping also asked Mishustin to say hello to Putin, and noted that the visit of the Russian PM to China was successful.

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Relations between Hungary and Sweden are poor and must improve before the Nordic state's bid for NATO membership is approved

"The political relationship between Sweden and Hungary is awfully wrong, and we have to improve first," Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. "We would not like to import conflicts into NATO first."

Earlier, Orban's chief of staff said that the bilateral ties between Hungary and Sweden have hit an all-time low. He also accused Swedish politicians of "making a habit of continually questioning the state of democracy in Hungary," as well as "insulting Hungarian voters and MPs, and, through them, the whole of Hungary."

No date has been set yet as to when the Hungarian parliament will vote on the Swedish bid for admission, which has to be ratified by all current members.

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In this episode of our fresh New Rules podcast, we are joined by Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired US Air Force lt. col. and ex-Pentagon analyst. She touches upon growing dissent in the US military, Biden’s shrinking options on Ukraine and even more...

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu expects that Tayyip Erdogan will gain over 56% of votes in the second round of the presidential election

"In the first round, 49.5% is a figure that every leader in the world cannot even dream of. As a result, the people showed their goodwill, but in the second round, as you can see, more than 56% will vote for the incumbent president. Polls are showing the development in this direction. People abroad are eager to vote," Cavusoglu told Turkish broadcaster on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Sinan Ogan, the third-placed candidate in the first round, announced on Monday his support for Erdogan in the upcoming runoff and called on his supporters to vote for the incumbent president.

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📌 On May 24, 1900, the legendary cruiser Aurora was launched onto the waters of the Neva River in St. Petersburg

▪️ A blank salvo from the Aurora heralded the beginning of the assault on the Winter Palace in October 1917.

▪️ Today the cruiser is one of the main symbols of the October Revolution and St. Petersburg as well.

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Catch our Fault Lines show where we provide updates and analysis on all the most vital stories! Here's our line-up for today:

🔺To kick things off, the Biden administration's conflict with New York Democratic Mayor Adams over the migrant crisis
🔺Next, we’ll continue monitoring the debt ceiling negotiations
🔺Finally, we’ll focus on the second Hunter Biden whistleblower coming forward and confirming that the IRS investigation of Hunter Biden is being suppressed

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Better World: Ancient Apex Predator Likely Migrated to South Africa From Russia to Survive

🌍 Unlike the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago, the Permian–Triassic extinction event of 252 million years ago took place over a long period of time, with species dying off one by one as the situation grew worse.

Fossils of a tiger-sized, saber-toothed mammal precursor known as Inostrancevia discovered in South Africa by the international team of paleontologists offer a glimpse into the drama of an apex predator that migrated halfway around the globe over several generations in a last-ditch effort to live.

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