❗️Loud explosions heard in Lugansk, LPR, Sputnik correspondent reports

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⚡️ Putin: US previously called use of cluster munitions crime, it should be treated accordingly

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❗️Putin takes aim at US cluster bomb supplies to Ukraine:

▪️The US previously condemned the use of cluster munitions as a crime, so this is how it should be regarded;

▪️The US is not doing this because of any good times in life, but because they are running out of ammunition;

▪️Moscow has so far not needed to use cluster munitions, but if they are used against Russia, it has the right to take tit-for-tat action;

▪️Russia possesses a sufficient stockpile of various kinds of cluster munitions.

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🇹🇷 Over 200 businessmen to accompany Erdogan on official tour of Persian Gulf

Turkiye is expecting more than $50 billion in investment during Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia on July 17-19, Turkish media reported.

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UN admits no vessels with Russian fertilizers dispatched under Black Sea grain initiative

A UN coordinator also acknowledged that low and low-middle-income countries have received only 10% of corn and 40% of wheat under the initiative, with high and upper-middle-income countries importing 90% of corn and 60% of wheat.

The Joint Coordination Centre, which is charged with implementing the grain deal, has got 29 applications on exports from vessels in Turkish waters, but none of these applications have been approved by all parties to the deal, and no new ships have been authorized to participate since June 27.

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🎥 A Russian Ka-52 helicopter crew unleashed a surgical strike and obliterated a Ukrainian armored vehicle, which was occupying a firing position hiding under forest cover in the Southern Donetsk area.

Video courtesy from Russian MoD

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🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin: Ukrainian attempts to break through Russian defenses fail every time during special military op

💬 “All attempts by the enemy to break through our defenses - and this is a task which includes the use of strategic reserves - they have not been successful during the entire offensive. The enemy is not enjoying any successes,” the Russian president said, praising the Russian army's heroism.

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🇷🇺 Russia could reverse engineer its trophy NATO weapons, Putin says

💬 “There’s the expression ‘reverse engineering’. We’ll see what happens, because modern equipment…we have it, and it’s very effective, let’s take the T-90 Proryv tank for example, which is the best tank in the world without any exaggeration. But the enemy also produces modern equipment. And if there’s an opportunity to look inside and see if there’s something there that we can use, well, why not?” Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Russian television.

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🗣️ On NATO's move towards Asia-Pacific as a shift towards a confrontation with China:

“Asia is not part of the North Atlantic, this is one of the reasons why France, amongst other powers, has poured cold water on this idea of opening a NATO office in Japan, obviously meant to target the People's Republic of China... And I think what's happening is that NATO is in search of a mission because its escapade in Ukraine is collapsing,” Dr. Gerald Horne, a history professor at the University of Houston, TX, and author, told Sputnik.

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