Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemns latest drone attacks outside Moscow

💬 The Kiev regime’s attempted attack on an area where civilian infrastructure facilities are located, including an airport, which by the way accepts foreign flights, is another act of terrorism. Given that Zelensky is committing these terrorist attacks with weapons supplied by the West or with Western funds, this is international terrorism. The world community must realize that the United States, Britain, France - permanent members of the UN Security Council - bankroll this terrorist regime.

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This morning an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack targeting infrastructure outside Moscow using five drones has been foiled, the Russian MoD said

Five drones downed near Moscow

▪️ Four Ukrainian UAVs were eliminated by air defense systems outside Moscow, Russia’s MoD said;

▪️ Another UAV was suppressed by electronic warfare and crashed in the Moscow Region, the ministry reported;

▪️ There were no victims or any damage as a result of the thwarted terrorist attempt by Kiev, the ministry added.

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📸 This photo surfaced online allegedly showing the exact moment that one of the Ukrainian UAVs targeting the Moscow area was destroyed

📸 Screenshot from a social media post allegedly depicting the debris from one of the Ukrainian drones downed near Moscow on July 4, 2023

More than 70 arrested in France during last night’s unrest, local TV reports

The riots broke out in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre on June 27 after police shot and killed 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, a delivery driver of Algerian heritage, after pulling over his car. The officer who fired the fatal shot was soon charged with manslaughter.

Since then the unrest has spread across France to Lyon and Marseille, and even to neighboring Belgium and Switzerland.

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The US and the UK had the lowest confidence in their governments’ leadership among G7 countries in 2022

Confidence in the US and UK governments has dropped since 2006, while the rest of the G7’s scores have risen in the same time period, a Gallup poll revealed.

Germany and Canada scored the highest government confidence ratings, with 61% and 51% confidence, respectively, the poll said.

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❗️🇮🇳 Modi wishes the best to the Iranian people and Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi 🇮🇷 as Iran is set to be formally accepted into the SCO

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🇮🇳 Indian PM Modi and 🇷🇺Russian President Putin meet 'screen to screen' during Tuesday’s SCO virtual summit

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Poland does not need additional NATO troops, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said

The Polish leadership regularly says Warsaw would like NATO to deploy as many of its troops as possible in the republic.

Berlin offered Warsaw three of its Patriot units after a Ukrainian missile fell in Poland and killed two people in November 2022.

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❗️LIVE NOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) summit

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❗️Vladimir Putin at the SCО summit:

▪️ Geopolitical contradictions are becoming more acute in the world, security is degrading

▪️ SCO is committed to establishing a just world order with the UN playing a central role

▪️ A hybrid war is being waged against Russia

▪️ Russia is confidently resisting and will continue to resist sanctions and restrictions, the Russian people are more consolidated than ever, Putin said

❗️ Putin: Russia supports Belarus joining the SCO expeditiously, as it is the nearest strategic ally of the Russian Federation.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 More than 80% of trade between Russia and China carried out in rubles and yuan, Vladimir Putin said

The Russian Federal Security Service apprehended a Ukrainian citizen in the Lugansk People's Republic, accused of espionage

Since October 2022, the individual in custody had been collecting and sharing information about the deployment and movement of LPR and Russian troops to help Ukrainian forces fight Russian service members participating in the ongoing military operation in Ukraine, the FSB added.

An investigation into this case has begun, the authorities also noted.

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Violations of the safe operation of the Zaporozhye nuclear plant were not recorded following its recent disconnection from the Dnepr power line by the Kiev regime

Radiation background levels have been reported as normal, the plant has said.

🗣 Jens Stoltenberg says he will remain as NATO secretary general for another year - until October 2024

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🇧🇾 Belarus stands for the integration of the SCO, the EAEU and the BRICS, Alexander Lukashenko said

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🇮🇷 Iran becomes a full member of the SCO