❗️Latest statements by Kremlin aide Dmitry Peskov:

▪️About Biden's mistake confusing Iraq and Ukraine: “We hope he meant Ukraine.”

▪️Russia is interested in the US having objective information about world events.

▪️About reports Biden's health issues: “We do not consider it possible to comment on it.”

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Yevgeny Prigozhin did not follow the Ministry of Defense's decision to sign contracts, and was informed before the events of June 24 that the Wagner Group would not participate in the special operation, according to the chairman of the Russian State Duma’s Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov.

Furthermore, Kartapolov stated that Prigozhin was alerted that if he did not sign the contracts with the Ministry of Defense, he would not receive any funding.

⚡️ Two generals who participated in the meeting, up to 50 officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as up to 20 foreign mercenaries and military advisers were destroyed, according to updated information from the Russian Ministry of Defense, as a result of the strike on June 27 on the temporary location of Ukraine’s 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade in Kramatorsk.

📹 Video confirms Russian strike on Kramatorsk hit Ukrainian forces

A video that has gone viral on social media, published by an alleged foreign mercenary named Peter, has confirmed that the Russian strike on Kramatorsk hit positions of Ukrainian forces.

Both Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries were presumably injured in the attack. Peter said that he arrived at the scene to help search through the rubble.

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🇭🇺🇪🇺 “Where’s the money, EU Commission?” Victor Orban points out the elephant in the room

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❗️LIVE NOW: Vladimir Putin participates in the Agency for Strategic Initiatives plenary forum, 'Strong Ideas for a New Time’, in Moscow

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❗️ Ethiopia officially requests to join BRICS

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🇷🇺📹 Sanctions and exit of foreign companies have not collapsed Russian market, Putin says

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🇷🇺 Russia Takes Note of '#MakeInIndia' 🇮🇳 Initiative: Putin

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📹 Russian Air Force navigators provide guidance for aviation missile strike on enemy positions

The Russian Defense Ministry has released video footage showing specialists of the Tsentr Group air force navigator provide guidance for army aviation missile strike on enemy positions in Krasny Liman direction.

The work of aviation spotters is especially dangerous because it rarely gets caught on camera, but it's these inconspicuous fighters who determine the accuracy of air strikes and the safety of aircrews.

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🇫🇷 Participants of a protest march have tried to break through to the prefecture of Nanterre, a Sputnik correspondent reports, adding that police are using tear gas.

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Four Ukrainian attacks were successfully repelled in the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics. Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 530 troops killed and wounded, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, one Msta-B and one D-20 howitzer, as well as one ammunition depot;

▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group was neutralized. Russian forces destroyed up to 65 Ukrainian troops, two armored fighting vehicles, two pick-up trucks, two D-30 howitzers, and two Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers;

▪️In the Zaporozhye direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 135 troops, two armored fighting vehicles, three D-20 howitzers, one Msta-B and one D-30 howitzer, as well as one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer;

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, more than 25 Ukrainian troops, one Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, one D-30 howitzer, and one Grad MLRS were eliminated;

▪️In the Kherson direction, up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, six motor vehicles, and one Msta-B howitzer were neutralized, as well as an ammunition depot;

▪️An ammunition depot was hit in the Donetsk People's Republic;

▪️Two US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar stations were destroyed in the Kharkov region and Donetsk People's Republic;

▪️According to updated information, as a result of a precision strike on June 27 in Kramatorsk, two generals participating in a staff meeting, up to 50 Ukrainian officers, as well as 20 foreign mercenaries and military advisers were eliminated;

▪️Russian air defense forces shot down two HIMARS missiles, one HARM anti-radiation missile, and 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the Kharkov region, Donetsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, and Kherson region.

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US presidential candidate Mike Pence has arrived in Kiev on an unannounced visit. American media outlets report that he met with Volodymyr Zelensky. Pence is the first Republican presidential candidate to pay such a visit during the campaign.

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