BAE Systems, the British arms and aerospace multinational, has signed an agreement with the UK government to the tune of 280 million pounds ($360 million) to boost the production of 155mm artillery shells in order to reduce the global shortage of ammunition and help Ukraine, a UK newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The deal, which could increase in value to over 400 million pounds, will allow the UK-based company to increase its production capacity by eight times, the report added.

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📹 The crew of a Ka-52 reconnaissance and attack helicopter destroyed an Ukrainian armoured fighting vehicle with a guided missile in the zone of the special military operation

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🇨🇦🇺🇸 The decision to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions is related to NATO’s lack of industrial defense capacity and the alliance's focus should be on expanding it, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly said on Tuesday.

“Of course, we do not agree with the American position [on cluster munitions deliveries to Ukraine], and we've mentioned it to the American officials. Meanwhile, what I think the alliance needs to be focusing on is really expanding the defense industrial capacity, because we're in this position right now because of the issue of lack of defense, industrial capacity. So that's something that we need to be working on in Canada but also within the alliance," Joly said during a press conference from Vilnius.

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🇷🇺🇦🇪 The Russian Export Center (REC) supported exporters to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for almost $1 billion in 2022, REC Vice President Roman Genkel said at the roundtable "UAE: Opportunities for Business and Investment" at the Innoprom event.

The REC vice president has emphasized that this contribution of the development institute has fueled the phenomenal growth of trade between Russia and the UAE, which has reached almost 70%.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 The Russian Export Center (REC) and the Jinzhou Port Co. Ltd., a China-based company principally engaged in port cargo loading and unloading material warehousing and related logistics operations, have reached an agreement to cooperate to increase trade between Russia and China.

The memorandum was signed on the sidelines of the 3rd Forum of Interregional Cooperation between Russia and China within the framework of "Innoprom".

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📹 Russian paratroopers foil another attempted offensive by the AFU

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NATO allies have pledged more financial and military support to Ukraine at the Vilnius summit but seem divided over Washington's provision of deadly cluster munitions to Kiev.

Why Team Biden is shrugging off moral concerns and NATO divisions over cluster bombs?

🇺🇸 Former US President Donald Trump's legal team asked the court to delay his trial over alleged mishandling of classified documents until after the 2024 presidential election.

“Proceeding to trial during the pendency of a Presidential election cycle wherein opposing candidates are effectively (if not literally) directly adverse to one another in this action will create extraordinary challenges in the jury selection process and limit the Defendants’ ability to secure a fair and impartial adjudication,” Trump’s legal team said in a court filing dated Monday and obtained by US media.

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📹 A crew of a Ka-52 reconnaissance and attack helicopter destroyed an Ukrainian armoured combat vehicle together in coordination with paratroopers using a guided missile

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NATO countries introduce manuals on "active citizenship" and "democracy" in Ukraine

Western manuals for universities were found in the city of Volnovakha, DPR, which was under the control of Kiev until last March.

One of the books found teaches students to be able to organize certain socio-political actions. The manual was created with the participation of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the UK Government Department for International Development (UKAID), the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).

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Ukraine might never join NATO, and the alliance is afraid to say it out loud, Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says

The official also called NATO’s intention to increase military assistance to Ukraine "a dead end in fact."

"The World War Three is getting closer," Medvedev said.

The remarks come as Ukraine's potential NATO membership has remained a hot topic amid Russia's special military operation, even more so with the military bloc's recently kicked off Vilnius summit.

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GOP Congresswoman proposes amendments to pull US out of NATO and stop aid to Kiev

GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene put forward a number of amendments to the draft US defense budget for fiscal year 2024, including directing President Joe Biden to begin the process of withdrawing the United States from NATO, as well as suspending aid to the Kiev regime until the end of the Ukrainian conflict.

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📹 The Russian Navy’s "Perekop" training ship with cadets on board has arrived in Havana Bay, Russia’s diplomatic mission reports

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Foreign mercenary fighting on Kiev’s side calls Ukrainian counteroffensive ‘horror’ and ‘chaos’

"On 'zero line' it's horror. It's horror" Rhys Byrne, a 28-year-old from Dublin, revealed to English-speaking media.

He described the battle to reclaim territory by the Kiev regime as horrific. "We are not supposed to be alive. I mean, we were closer than close to death" he added.

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📹 A booby-trapped weapons cache belonging to Ukrainian saboteurs was uncovered in the LPR’s north

Due to the impossibility of demining the premises, it had to be destroyed.

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Footage of a spectacular shelf cloud has been circulating on Indian social media platforms

🇮🇳 ⛈ Over the past few days, northern India has been doused with heavy #rainfall. In the midst of this weather phenomenon, a colossal shelf cloud made its presence known in Haridwar, Uttarakhand.

📹 A video shared on local social networks captures the awe-inspiring sight of a massive cloud forming a wide arc in the sky, attracting the attention of astonished onlookers from the local community.

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NATO member countries misrepresented China's policies in their joint statement and deliberately discredited the country

China is determined to protect its sovereignty and security and will resolutely rebuff any NATO action that harms China's legitimate rights and interests, China's diplomatic mission to the EU said, adding that Beijing also opposed NATO's expansion in the Asia-Pacific region.

On Tuesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO member countries agreed to jointly counter China's growing influence and military power.

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US, G7 leaders to reveal plans to help Ukraine build its military to defend itself and deter future attacks - White House

The White House announced that a series of bilateral talks between the G7 countries and Ukraine will be held to achieve bilateral security guarantees.

📹 Russian soldiers captured an American IFV Bradley as a trophy in the special military op zone and sent ‘greetings’ to Zelensky

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📹 Russia’s 152 mm Giatsint-B howitzers destroy armored vehicles and fortified positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

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⚡️ By providing security guarantees to Ukraine, NATO countries actually encroach on the security of Russia, the Kremlin warned

Moscow hopes for the wisdom of Western countries.

Kremlin says security assurances to Kiev fraught with negative consequences, this will make Europe more dangerous for years to come.

"They do bad things to us. We will take into account this fact and will proceed from it," the Kremlin added.