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

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❗️ 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

❗️LIVE NOW: Vladimir Putin delivers statements

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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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❗️ More key points from Vladimir Putin's address:

▪️ On my direct instructions, decisions were made to avoid bloodshed;

▪️ The mutineers wanted the soldiers to kill each other, and this outcome was also wanted in Kiev;

▪️ The vast majority of Wagner fighters are patriots of the motherland, they were used in the dark;

▪️ I am grateful to President of Belarus Lukashenko for his contribution in resolving the situation;

▪️ I thank all the soldiers, they showed courage;

▪️ Putin invited Wagner fighters to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense, to return home or to Belarus.

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The full video of Vladimir Putin's urgent address

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