The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis (Part 1/2):

▪️ Last night, the Armed Forces of Russia launched a long-range, high-precision maritime and airstrike at foreign-made ammunition, sent to Ukraine by Western countries. The goal of the strike has been achieved. All the assigned targets have been engaged.

▪️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces have continued their attempts to conduct offensive operations in in the zone of the special military op during the previous 24 hours. Two enemy attacks have been successfully repelled due to the skillful and committed actions of the Russian Armed Forces. Up to 195 Ukrainian troops, two armored fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, as well as two American-made Paladin self-propelled artillery units have been eliminated during the day.

▪️ Russia’s aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems inflicted losses on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the LPR and DPR. Two sabotage and reconnaissance groups have been eliminated in the LPR. The Ukrainians have lost 9 troops, three armored fighting vehicles, five pick-up trucks, one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, and one D-30 howitzer in this are in the past 24 hours.

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The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis (Part 2/2) :

▪️ Russia’s artillery and heavy flamethrower systems have repelled four enemy attacks in the DPR. The total losses of the enemy during the day amounted to over 150 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored fighting vehicles, two pick-up trucks, and one Msta-B and one D-20 howitzers.

▪️ Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces launched strikes at enemy manpower and hardware in Kharkov region and the LPR. The enemy's losses during the day amounted to over 30 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, and two Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery systems.

▪️ Up to 35 Ukrainian servicemen, three motor vehicles, and two Msta-B howitzers have been neutralized by fire in Kherson region.

▪️ Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of Russia have engaged 83 Ukrainian artillery units, manpower and hardware in 104 areas during the day.

▪️ Russia's Air Defense shot down 19 unmanned aerial vehicles in the zone of the special military op.

▪️ Some 444 airplanes and 240 helicopters, 4,798 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 air defense missile systems, 10,356 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,131 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,238 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 11,197 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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Germany is ready to permanently deploy a combat-ready brigade in Lithuania to reinforce NATO's eastern flank, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Monday.

On Sunday, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda urged NATO to strengthen the eastern flank, citing risks associated with Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's relocation to Belarus, per his agreement with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

"Germany is ready to deploy a combat-ready brigade in Lithuania on a permanent basis," Pistorius said at a press conference with his Lithuanian counterpart, Arvydas Anusauskas, in Vilnius.

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❗️ The EU mission will train a larger number of Ukrainian soldiers instead of the declared 30,000, said the head of EU diplomacy Borrell

🇰🇪 Kenya's legislator urges EAC to ditch dollar, "break the chains of economic neo-colonialism"

David Sankok, a Kenyan member of the East African Legislative Assembly, has introduced a resolution suggesting that the East African Community (EAC) use local currencies to increase cross-border trade, according to local media.

According to the lawmaker, dropping costly dollars for local currencies would facilitate trade, speed up the introduction of the proposed EAC single currency, save the countries of the region third-party exchange fees and strengthen the currencies themselves

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📹 Ka-52 reconnaissance and attack helicopter crew destroys UAF armored vehicles

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🇺🇸 Fox News finds replacement for Tucker Carlson

The place of the host and the main star of the channel will now be taken by Jesse Watters.

In April, Fox News pulled Carlson off the air for unclear reasons, but will keep him on the staff until 2025.

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❗️ Two Russian Su-27s intercepted an RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft and two British Air Force Typhoon multirole fighters over the Black Sea approaching the Russian border - Ministry of Defense of Russia

📹 The Ministry of Defense has published footage taken from a Russian aircraft

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📹 Sergey Lavrov on wishful thinking of Western countries

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❗️ The planned transfer of the valuables of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra abroad is an example of Zelensky's criminal course to destroy the foundations of Ukrainian society - Russian Foreign Ministry

🗣️”If you're going to be the world's currency and you expect everyone to do business in the dollar, then you can't weaponize the dollar”: Justin Podur, associate professor at York University, author of America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo, and co-host of the Anti-Empire Project, told Sputnik

🎧Listen to more of Podur’s analysis in our podcast By Any Means Necessary

❗️ Vladimir Putin will make a number of important statements this evening, media reports, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmirty Peskov

📹 Jens Stoltenberg: "What we are seeing is the fragility of the German regime"

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❗️ Alexander Lukashenko will also make a number of statements shortly, the press service of the Belarusian president said

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❗️ Latest statements made by Vladimir Putin:

▪️ The Wagner situation showed that blackmail and turmoil are doomed to failure.

▪️ The armed rebellion would have been put down anyway.

▪️ The public, parties, religious organizations, the whole society took a firm stand in support of constitutional order

▪️ Russians showed consolidation, everyone was united by the fate of the fatherland.

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