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❗️Forces from the Akhmat Assault Detachment of the 5th Motorized Rifle Brigade are conducting successful offensive operations in the Maryinka direction, the Russian Defense Ministry said

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UAE successfully tests artificial rain technology in 50-degree desert heat using drones

The United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 has recently tested a groundbreaking method to combat the scorching 50°C desert heat, by using drones to make it rain.

🌧 This technology, also known as "cloud seeding," involves using electrically charged drones to strike clouds and provoke precipitation through collision. The successful test was reported by regional media on 30 May , marking a significant advance in weather modification technology.

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Russian Interior Ministry puts another 3 Ukrainian military commanders on wanted list

The Russian Interior Ministry has put Ukrainian First Deputy Chief of the General Staff Ihor Kolesnyk and two other generals of the Ukrainian armed forces on wanted list, according to the ministry’s database.

"Grounds for search: wanted on criminal charges," the profiles of the Ukrainian commanders said.

On Tuesday, the Russian Interior Ministry put US Senator Lindsey Graham on the wanted list on criminal charges in connection with the remarks he made during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️The situation in the Russian regions that border Ukraine is “quite alarming,” work to improve the effectiveness of the air defense will continue;

▪️The Kremlin has taken note of the West not condemning the drone attack by Ukraine targeting civilian facilities in Moscow and the Moscow region;

▪️There is no discussion about declaring martial law in Russia after the recent drone attack on Moscow;

▪️Russia supports the Serbs in the situation in Kosovo and believes that all legitimate rights and interests of the Kosovo Serbs must be respected and ensured;

▪️Diplomatic dialogue between Serbia and Russia is constant;

▪️Putin and Erdogan have during phone talks confirmed their intention to hold a meeting in the foreseeable future.

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🎮🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin reveals whether he is a gaming connoisseur in a conversation with developers at an exhibition

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later commented that he has never seen the Russian president playing computer games.

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❗️Russia’s MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️ Russian forces destroyed last warship of Ukrainian navy in Odessa port on May 29;

▪️ The fiercest battles are being fought in the area of the DPR’s Avdeevka settlement;

▪️ Near Kupyansk, the activities of three Ukrainian army sabotage and recon groups were quashed;

▪️ Russian troops destroyed more than 50 soldiers and а self-propelled gun Gvozdika belonging to the Ukrainian military near Krasny Liman in a 24-hour period;

▪️ Russian forces destroyed ammunition depots of the Ukrainian military’s 60th mechanized brigade in the Kharkov Region;

▪️ Russian forces drove out the Ukrainian army from their positions in and around the Krasnogorovka and Yasinovataya settlements in the DPR;

▪️ The Russian army wiped out as many as 185 Ukrainian militants in the DPR’s south and in the Zaporozhye Region;

▪️ Russian forces eliminated the ammunition depots of the Ukrainian military’s 65th mechanized brigade in the Zaporozhye Region;

▪️ Russian troops obliterated a depot of rocket and artillery weapons of the Ukrainian military’s 110th mechanized brigade in the DPR;

▪️ Russian forces destroyed the command and observation post of the Ukrainian army’s Skala assault battalion;

▪️ The Ukrainian military in the DPR suffered losses of over 200 servicemen;

▪️ Russian forces hammered the command post of the Ukrainian military’s 33rd mechanized brigade in the Zaporozhye Region;

▪️ Russia’s air defense took out 12 HIMARS projectiles, a Storm Shadow missile and 11 UAVs in 24 hours;

▪️ Russian forces eliminated as many as 30 military personnel of the Kiev regime and two Ukrainian armored vehicles towards Kherson.

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Minsk believes deploying Russian tactical nuclear arms to cool down war-like rhetoric

Minsk expects that agreements with Russia on the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in the republic will cool down the war-like rhetoric of neighboring Western countries and Ukraine and will not allow a more global military confrontation, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said on Wednesday.

"I have recently signed with my Russian counterpart a regulation on the procedure for keeping nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus. This is an effective measure that should cool the aggressive character and war-like rhetoric that comes from our neighbors and prevent it from escalating into some kind of global, large-scale war," Khrenin said in his address to the parliament.

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❗️ The United States does not encourage Ukraine to attack Russia and does not want to see the military conflict escalate, White House Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby said on Wednesday, following the recent drone attacks on Moscow.

"We do not want to encourage attacks inside Russia because we do not want to see the war escalate," Kirby said.

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🇮🇷 Iran’s domestically-produced Simorgh transport plane successfully completes maiden flight

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📹 Russian tankmen of 1st Slavyansk Brigade in combat action

While advancing in the direction of Avdeevka, the crew hit the positions of Ukrainian militants using a trophy T-64BV tank.

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