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🔺To kick things off, we'll be sizing up the NATO summit in Vilnius
🔺Next, we’ll focus on the FBI director’s contentious Congressional testimony
🔺Finally, we’ll delve into why Hunter Biden never registered as a foreign agent while his business partner is charged for that liability

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'Worse than fascists': Western leaders supporting Ukraine turn a blind eye to the fact that over the years, dozens of civilians were tortured "in official pre-trial detention facilities" by Ukrainian security forces.

Check out Sputnik's exclusive interview with three survivors of Ukrainian torture chambers – Russian-born Donetsk man Alexandra Valko, metalworking specialist Andrey Sokolov, and Larisa Gurina, a former police officer from Kharkov – about their experience in captivity. All three spoke candidly about how Ukrainian forces kidnap civilians suspected of disloyalty, and beat, stab, starve, and water board them in hopes of extracting a confession.

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US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. considers Ukraine’s potential membership in NATO an unnecessary provocation that becomes a doorway to war with Russia

"It is an unnecessary provocation, and a doorway to direct war with Russia and possibly nuclear conflict. He believes we should begin deescalating right now, with the goal of a negotiated peace that respects the security, sovereignty, and human rights of all parties," his press team told Sputnik.

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US reconnaissance planes violated North Korea's airspace more than 30 times from July 2-10, Pyongyang-run news agency reported

In response, North Korea dispatched air jets and expelled US reconnaissance planes, sending a "clear and strong warning" to the US, it added.

"This is a clear manifestation of the DPRK's will to defend peace and its patience to prevent military conflict that may lead to the worst crisis on the Korean peninsula where nukes and nukes are standing face to face and to control the present dangerous situation," the news agency's military correspondent wrote.

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EU losing its advantages, foreign policy sovereignty, achievements of European integration due to subordination to NATO, Russian diplomat told Sputnik

Acting head of Russian Mission to EU on results of NATO summit: EU stops talking about strategic autonomy, merging with NATO on terms of alliance

Trade between Russia and China in January-June 2023 has increased by 40.6% year-on-year to $114.547 billion

China has exported $52.284 billion worth of goods to Russia over the period, while Russia's export to China has increased by 19.4% to $62.263 billion.

In June, the bilateral trade amounted to $20.831 billion, with China having exported $11.28 billion in goods and imported $9.551 worth of goods from Russia.

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"My son was turned into a bag of bones"

📹 Larisa Gurina, a volunteer who was detained in Kharkov in 2015 on fabricated changes, reveals how Ukrainian Nazis beat her son half to death in front of her eyes

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😡 Social media users reacted angrily to ABC News Australia’s trans-child cartoon, calling it “insane“ and “sadistic“

“This is sick!“ one social media user said.

“Keep your damn hands off of the kids“ reacted another.

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🤔 How to thank?

Zelensky barks at Ben "Not Amazon" Wallace, who earlier said that Ukraine should be more grateful for pumping it with Western weapons (which is always not enough for the Ukrainian president)

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⚡️ Putin proposes to prepare new national project on formation of data economy until 2030

🇺🇸🇰🇷The United States and South Korea are allegedly planning to discuss the use of nuclear weapons against North Korea during the inaugural meeting of the new Nuclear Consultative Group in Seoul.

The NCG would allegedly be the parent body of a "tripartite nuclear alliance" among South Korea, the US and Japan, which would further drive the regional situation to the brink of an unprecedented nuclear war.

South Korean media has cited Yoon's office as saying that the first meeting of the Nuclear Consultative Group would be held on July 18 in Seoul.

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📹 Putin's proposal on the preparation of a new national project on the formation of the data economy at the plenary meeting of the Future Technologies Forum

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❗️ Vladimir Putin's statements made at the Future Technologies Forum:

▪️ Ruling elites of some countries stage Russia’s technological blockade;

▪️ Russia needs to count on itself in critical sectors for country's development;

▪️ Russia drew conclusions and learned lessons when some foreign partners tightly closed the door to Russia in the field of technology;

▪️ Dependence on foreign technology poses serious threats to national security, weakening and loss of country's sovereignty;

▪️ New national project on formation of data economy should be prepared until 2030.

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"We didn’t want European values, we didn’t want to give up our faith"

📹 Larisa Gurina, former police officer from Kharkov who was detained in 2015 by Nazi Ukrainians, speaks out on the reluctance of people living in the Donbass to accept European values and the price that people pay for their unwillingness: bombings, murders, torture

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

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces launched a group strike with high-precision weapons from the sea at the places of storage of ammunition of the Ukrainian Armed Forces;

▪️ Russian troops repulsed three attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Krasny Liman. Ukrainian losses amounted to 90 soldiers;

▪️ The Russian army repelled 16 attacks in the DPR;

▪️ Russian troops destroyed up to 70 soldiers in the Kherson direction, two self-propelled artillery mounts Akatsiya and Gvozdika;

▪️ Air defense systems of Russia intercepted 11 HIMARS shells, shot down 14 drones;

▪️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 180 fighters, a British-made AS-90 tank and self-propelled gun in a day in the south of DPR and Zaporozhye region;

▪️ Losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the DPR amounted to 480 personnel.

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🗣️ On Europe as one of the US’ proxies:

“Europe, unfortunately, is just another of the United States's proxies if we look at what Europe has done so far. They have suffered the brunt of the economic turmoil. The turmoil caused by their own sanctions against Russia, they've essentially cut off their own cheap supply of hydrocarbons from Russia that was fueling, literally fueling their industry,” Brian Berletic, ex-US Marine Corps and independent geopolitical researcher, told Sputnik.

🎧 Listen to more of Berletic’s analysis in our podcast The Critical Hour

⚡️ Putin: Ukraine in NATO will create security threat for Russia and will not increase security of Ukraine itself

❗️ Latest statements by Vladimir Putin:

▪️ Foreign tanks burn better than Soviet-made tanks;

▪️ Western-made missiles and tanks cause damage, but nothing critical happens in the war zone because of them;

▪️ Deliveries of new weapons to Kiev will only aggravate the situation for Ukraine;

▪️ Ukrainian soldiers often refuse to use foreign tanks as they are a priority target for Russian soldiers.

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