❗️ 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.

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⚡️ 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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❗️LIVE NOW: Putin's address to the media following the plenary session of the Future Technologies Forum

🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen, former president of the French right-wing National Rally party and the current chairwoman of its parliamentary faction, said it was "irresponsible" of the French president to pledge long-range missiles to Ukraine.

"I do not understand why Emmanuel Macron is not integrally focused on organizing a conference for peace to put an end to this [conflict]," Le Pen was quoted as saying by French media.

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"They ripped out my nails"

📹 Alexandra Valko, Russian-born Donbass resident, recalls how Ukrainian Nazis tortured her for a week

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🗣️ On NATO’s interests in the Asia-Pacific region:

“So clearly the AP4 or, the IP4: Australia, New Zealand, Japan and [South] Korea, are set to join NATO in this informal fashion. That is to say NATO is coming into the Asia Pacific. It is preparing for war with China. And China is making a very, very clear statement. It's drawing a red line,” KJ Noh, peace activist, teacher, and writer, told Sputnik.

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Scott Ritter: NATO summit serves up cringe nothing-burger

Sputnik's columnist Scott Ritter summed up the results of the NATO summit with the participation of Zelensky and compared it with and old advertisement of Wendy's burgers without meat.

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🗣️ On the core of NATO:

“What is NATO, really? Jens Stoltenberg has no power. I mean, they're just told what to do. NATO is a sort of vassal state, meeting group, when all these major members are told what to do by Washington and when I say Washington as you implied, that it's not the people of the United States represented in Washington, it is those arms companies that lobby the politicians who then tell these NATO members how to act,” Afshin Rattansi, host of Going Underground, told Sputnik.

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"They put an empty flour sack on and wrap it with tape so tightly that the person actually suffocates"

📹 Andrei Sokolov, a civilian who was captured by the Nazis and spent almost two years in captivity, talks about barbaric methods of torture, used by Ukrainian nationalists

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🇪🇹 🇪🇬 Leaders of Ethiopia and Egypt Discuss Crisis in Sudan, Disputed Blue Nile Dam

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi discussed the conflict in Sudan, bilateral relations, and Ethiopia's Blue Nile Dam (also known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam) at the presidential palace in Cairo, according to the Egyptian presidency.

On July 13, Egypt is hosting a conference of Sudan's neighboring countries to discuss the issue of putting an end armed clashes between opposing groups of the Sudanese military that have sparked a serious crisis in the region

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Biden promised $11-13 billion in IMF funds to Erdogan for the ratification of Sweden's application to NATO, Seymour Hersh said

The Turkish leader did not refuse the money, as he needs to restore the country's infrastructure after the devastating earthquakes, according to the investigative journalist.

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🔺Iran’s Raisi starts Africa trip by signing agreements with Kenya
🔺NATO expands to Asia-Pacific: Did Biden lie about not surrounding China?
🔺Germany to open tank factory in Ukraine

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🇩🇪Mental diseases were the most common reason for hospitalization among minors aged 10-17 in Germany in 2021. In 2011, this type of illness accounted for just 13% of all cases in the same age bracket.

Among all mental disorders, depression was the most common reason for inpatient treatment of German teenagers, accounting for 27% of all hospitalization cases caused by mental illnesses in 2021.

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The Russian Army will "easily cope" with the Ukrainian offensive and will begin its own "massive" offensive in August, Seymour Hersh said

He noted that Kiev would face "real problems" and even US-supplied cluster munitions had no chance of changing the course of the conflict.

The investigative journalist is sure that the White House made a mistake in assessing the situation at the front and the Ukrainian offensive is failing.

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