❗️The drones used in the Ukrainian terrorist attack on Moscow were previously unknown types of UAVs, and were built using a closed-coupled canard design, Alexey Rogozin, head of the Transport Technology Development Center said.

According to the design of these drones, the horizontal tail unit is located in front of the wing. This may be due to the desire to increase the carrying capacity, the expert said.

Ukraine has probably launched production of these types of UAVs, and their range can be up to thousands of kilometers with a wing span of up to 4 meters, Rogozin said.

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📹 A resident of a building struck by a Ukrainian UAV shared a video showing the wreckage of one of the drones

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📹 Russian kamikaze drones make short work of Ukrainian militants in the direction of Avdeevka

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🇩🇰 Denmark aims for NATO spending target with huge Ukraine aid package

The Nordic country plans to step up its military assistance to Ukraine by 17.9 billion kroner (nearly $2.6 billion) in 2023 and 2024, PM Mette Frederiksen has announced.

Frederiksen, recently named among possible contenders to become NATO's new boss as current Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is due to step down in September, said Copenhagen planned to replenish it with another 7.5 billion kroner ($1.1 billion) this year, and 10.4 billion ($1.5 billion) next year, with the money being earmarked for military aid.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen stressed the necessity of "massive military support for Ukraine for a number of years to come, regardless of how the developments on the battlefield are." With the new contribution to the Ukraine Fund, Denmark will meet NATO's spending target of 2% of GDP, Acting Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen announced.

According to him, this will allow Denmark to meet the objective by 2023 and 2024, as opposed to its initial plans of reaching the target by 2030. Conversely, last year, Denmark spent only 1.38% of its GDP on its military budget.

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🇺🇸 🇺🇬 US President Joe Biden condemned Uganda's new Anti-Homosexuality Act and warned about possible sanctions against the country

🗣 "We are considering additional steps, including the application of sanctions and restriction of entry into the United States against anyone involved in serious human rights abuses or corruption," Biden said in a statement

Prior to that, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law.

The law is aimed at protecting the culture, religious and family values of the Ugandan people "from acts that are likely to promote sexual promiscuity in this country," per the legislators

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🇸🇾 US preparing terrorist attacks on Syria's crowded places, gov't institutions

US special services coordinate attacks primarily in the southern provinces of As-Suwayda and Daraa, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service warned. US-controlled militants also target a strategically important highway between the cities of Palmyra and Deir ez-Zur.

The intelligence service also said that direct control of such operations is conducted from the US At Tanf military base located on the territory controlled by the Syrian opposition, where "dozens of Daesh* militants being trained."

*Daesh (also known as ISIS/ISIL/IS) is a terrorist group banned in Russia

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⚡️ Ukrainian terror drone attack on Moscow is Kiev’s response to Russia’s successful strike on a decision-making center in Ukraine on Sunday, Kremlin Spokesman Peskov says:

▪️The Ministry of Defense and the regional authorities adequately responded to the Ukrainian terrorist attack;

▪️Vladimir Putin received direct information about the attack straight from the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and the authorities of Moscow and the Moscow Region.

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🇧🇮 A very warm welcome for the Russian delegation in Burundi.

Sergey Lavrov greeted by drummers and dancers.

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📹 Russian UR-77 Meteorit mine clearing vehicle in action during special op

According to the commander of the engineer-sapper company, the unit's range of fire can reach 500 meters. The UR-77 has two 96-metre-long charges, each containing more than a tonne of plastic explosives.

As well as minefields, the Meteorite can also hit enemy strongholds. Airborne Troops engineers have repeatedly used the unit to perform non-combat tasks, and experience has shown that the UR-77 is equally effective against enemy fortifications.

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Kremlin spokesman Peskov on upcoming BRICS summit:

▪️Russia will participate in the BRICS summit at a fitting level and hopes that fellow BRICS members will not side with the International Criminal Court's illegal decisions concerning the President of the Russian Federation;

▪️As regards Venezuela's wish to join BRICS: many countries have expressed such a desire and this is a topic for discussion within the bloc.

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❗️Key points made by Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu:

▪️Ukrainian drone terror attack on Moscow targeted civilian infrastructure;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces react as harshly as possible to terrorist attacks by Ukraine against civilians in Russia using NATO weapons;

▪️The West’s military support for Ukraine only prolongs the hostilities, but cannot affect the outcome of the special military operation;

▪️The Russian Army tracks the supplies of Western equipment and weapons to Ukraine and destroys them upon detection;

▪️Ukraine lost more than 16,000 servicemen in May as a result of the military operation;

▪️More than 16 Ukrainian aircraft, 466 UAVs, over 400 tanks, and more than 230 guns and mortars were destroyed in May;

▪️Russian forces destroyed another Patriot missile defense system in Kiev;

▪️Russian air defense systems intercepted 29 Storm Shadow missiles.

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📹 Roofing specialists work on top floor of residential building struck by Ukrainian terrorist drone in Moscow

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Elon Musk has met with the head of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The minister stated at the meeting that healthy and stable Sino-US relations are beneficial to the whole world, while Musk said that the interests of China and the US are "inseparable from each other."

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🇺🇸💰 US Treasury has less cash than each of world's 31 richest billionaires

The Treasury’s latest daily statement gives the cash balance at the close of May 25 as $38.837 billion, down from $49.473 billion a day before and $214.882 on May 2.

This contrasts with the wealth of 31 tycoons topping the Bloomberg Billionaires Index of the world’s 500 richest people. The Tuesday edition estimates French fashion magnate Bernard Arnault to be worth $193 billion, followed by SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk with $185 billion and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with $144 billion.

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❗️Turkiye’s AK Party-led alliance wins 323 seats in 600-seat parliament in elections, according to CEC head

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

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Russian forces destroyed up to 40 Ukrainian troops, one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, as well as one US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter mortar radar;

▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, Russian forces neutralized up to 85 Ukrainian personnel, two armored combat vehicles, one D-20 howitzer, and one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer;

▪️In the Donetsk direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 145 troops, two armored combat vehicles, one D-30 howitzer; In the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, Russian forces destroyed over 140 Ukrainian troops. The actions of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were thwarted;

▪️In the Kherson direction, Russian troops neutralized up to 30 Ukrainian soldiers, one Msta-B and one D-30 howitzer, as well as one Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer;

▪️Russian air defenses shot down one HARM anti-radar missile, seven HIMARS missiles, and eight unmanned aerial vehicles in the LPR, DPR, Kharkov, and Zaporozhye regions.

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