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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❗️Russia reserves right to take toughest measures in response to Ukraine’s drone terror attack on Moscow, Russia’s MFA says.

The attack targeted civilians to spread panic among them, the ministry said, adding that Western support for the Kiev regime pushes the Ukrainian leadership to more senseless crimes.

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⚡️ Ukrainian woman that planned to take orphans out of Russia detained in Moscow

A Ukrainian woman who plotted to traffic orphans from Russia's new regions to foreign countries has been detained by the Russian authorities and already deported.

The detained woman is not related to the children.

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⚡️ Putin confirms Russia attacked headquarters of military intelligence of Ukraine

No matter what Moscow says, Russia will be blamed for this incident, Vladimir Putin said.

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❗️Highlights of Vladimir Putin’s speech after Ukrainian’s drone terror attack on Moscow:

▪️Competition between Russia and Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR was inevitable, but it was assumed that it would go in a civilized way;

▪️Post-Soviet Ukraine was controlled by people who embarked on the path of creating an “anti-Russia” with help of the West;

▪️NATO has deceived Russia when the alliance promised not to expand east, and now they are even trying to make Ukraine join;

▪️Russia was forced to response to the war unleashed by Ukraine against the people of Donbass;

▪️The Kiev regime chose the path of intimidation of Russian citizens, which is a clear sign of terrorist activity;

▪️Provocations by Ukraine are designed to get a “mirror response” from Russia;

▪️Residents of Ukraine should understand that the leadership of this country is pushing Russia to respond;

▪️Ukrainians have “no input” into the total terror unleashed on them by their government;

▪️Kiev is trying to sabotage the work of the Zaporozhye NPP;

▪️Russia’s strikes in Ukraine aim specifically for military infrastructure facilities or ammunition depots.

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📹 Vladimir Putin confirms Russian strike on Ukrainian military intel HQ in Kiev

💬 "We've already mentioned that we can strike the decision-making centers and headquarters. Obviously, the Military Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's headquarters is also such a target. And in response, as you are well aware, the Kiev regime chose a different path, a path to try to intimidate Russia and its citizens, to try to target residential buildings. It is an obvious indicator of terrorist activity".

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🎣➡️😱 Nordic countries in 2023 be like:

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