🇨🇺 Cuban president expresses solidarity to Putin amid Wagner mutiny attempt

💬 "I express the solidarity of the people and government of Cuba to the respected President Putin and the brotherly people of the Russian Federation, in the face of attempts to provoke an armed rebellion in the country. We are fully convinced that unity and constitutional order will prevail," Miguel Diaz-Canel said.

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📹 The situation near the Southern Military District headquarters in Rostov-on-Don is calm, and traffic along Budennovsky Prospekt has resumed, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

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Two dead, over a dozen injured in Michigan shooting

At least five different caliber weapons were used in the shooting at the street party in Saginaw, local police said. The party had been promoted on social media.

💬 "As of this release, fifteen people were injured by gunshot or being struck by a vehicle. Two victims, a 19- year-old man and a 51-year-old woman, have died. All fifteen victims were transported to local hospitals for medical treatment," the Michigan police said.

Law enforcement in Saginaw County had dispersed the party goers multiple times at different locations prior to the shooting, according to police. An investigation is underway.


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📹 Russian forces eliminate Ukrainian stronghold in Kupyansk direction

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❗️Wagner Group forces are leaving Voronezh region in southwestern Russia very calmly and without incident, local authorities say

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🇨🇦 Canadian police probe ‘circumstances’ behind death of five on board Titan sub

Superintendent Kent Osmond of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told reporters that a team of investigators had been formed with the "sole purpose" of defining whether a criminal investigation would be warranted.

Asked whether the police had any suspicion of criminal activity, Osmond said that "There is no suspicion of criminal activity per se, but the RCMP is taking initial steps to assess whether or not we will go down that road."

Apart from the police probe, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board announced its own investigation, as Titan's support vessel was the Canadian-flagged Polar Prince. This followed the USCG asking the country’s National Transportation Safety Board to assist in its investigation into the implosion of the Titan submersible, which has been called a major marine casualty.

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🇺🇸 US intelligence two weeks ago received data indicating that Prigozhin was preparing a mutiny, and warned the White House about this, but they decided not to make the information public, US media report, citing officials

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❗️Wagner Group forces are leaving Lipetsk region, about 400 kilometers south of Moscow, local authorities say

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🇷🇺📹 'No need to pay attention': Sergey Lavrov comments on statements by Biden and Zelensky about Russian nuclear threat

The foreign minister said that he cannot provide commentary on “stream of consciousness” statements by these politicians, adding that he doesn’t have a medical education to do that – quipping that Ursula von der Leyen does.

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🇷🇸 Serbia will never support a coup in any country, President Aleksandar Vucic said

‘We did not support one in Turkiye or in Russia, and we would not support one in America either,’ he said, adding that power is won through elections.

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🇨🇳 China completes construction of its longest undersea oil and gas pipeline

The Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation has recently finished construction a new pipeline which now links an offshore extraction platform operating at an undersea natural gas field in the South China Sea with an "onshore receiving station" on the Hainan Island.

According to Chinese media, the 115.5-kilometer pipeline became a "key transmission project" that now links the offshore extraction platform with the "onshore receiving station."

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💬 "They need, in many ways a Ukrainian defeat"

In latest episode of our New Rules show, we were joined by Scott Ritter, an ex-US Marine intelligence officer, who explains why NATO knew the Ukrainian counteroffensive would fail from the start.

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

▪️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces continued to attempt offensive operations in the DPR, near Krasny Liman and in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled two attacks in the south of the DPR and in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️ Russia also repelled ten attacks in the Artemovsk area;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled four attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Avdeevka, Maryinka, Pervomaisky;

▪️ Russian troops stopped the activities of two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Serebryansky forest area;

▪️ The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the south of the DPR and in the Zaporozhye region amounted to over 170 soldiers;

▪️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 430 soldiers in the DPR;

▪️ Russian troops destroyed up to 130 Ukrainian servicemen near Krasny Liman;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 25 military units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Kupyansk;

▪️ Russian air defense systems intercepted a Tochka-U missile and a MLRS HIMARS projectile of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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🇷🇺 Putin reveals that he keeps a close eye on ongoing special operation

Speaking with a Russian reporter this week, Putin stated that his work day starts and ends with issues related to the military operation in Ukraine, holding meetings and making phone calls related to that matter.

💬 "Of course, it's my first priority. That's how the day begins and that's how it ends," Putin said.

The Russian president also mentioned that he takes a keen interest in the situation with Russia's military-industrial complex, frequently discussing matters of weaponry production with the heads of Russian defense contractors.

💬 "There are conferences, meetings, talks on the phone, discussions about the production, which is being set up, of the military-industrial complex, with the directors of enterprises, with the heads of companies, with those who use these forces and means, these technical means, these armaments. We talk about their effectiveness, about where and what still needs to be improved and what is lacking. We talk about how, in what ways, at what pace, at what rate we need to increase our efforts," Putin said.

According to Putin, such conversations are usually related to the overall efficiency of arms manufacturing and to the aspects the military-industrial sphere that require improvement.

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💬 "Reality will crush rhetoric every step of the way"

On the latest episode of New Rules podcast, Scott Ritter says that no amount of "words coming out of a NATO summit in Vilnius" will change the reality on the battlefield.

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🇦🇺 Taipei urges Australia to send military attaché to Taiwan

💬 "I think it is very important when the Australian government is paying so much more attention to the regional security issues for the two countries to be able to share their observations, their assessment of the situation," Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told The Australian media.

The report specified that the United States, Japan and Singapore have long placed their attaches on the island in order to maintain communication with Taiwanese intelligence services.

Wu added that Taiwan also wanted to send a military attache to the Canberra office.

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📹 Consequences of a Ukrainian MLRS strike in the center of Donetsk on Sunday

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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Meets Chinese Foreign Minister in Beijing

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang exchanged views on a number of issues in Beijing on Sunday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.

"On June 25, 2023, a member of China's State Council, Foreign Minister Qin Gang met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Rudenko in Beijing and exchanged views with him on Sino-Russian relations and international and regional issues of mutual interest," the ministry said in a statement.

No further details of the meeting were given.

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