⚡️ The decision to attack the Crimean Bridge was made by Ukrainian officials, military with participation of the US, UK special services, Russian Foreign Ministry says

Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case on charges of "terrorism" over the Crimean Bridge terror attack.

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‘Situation is difficult’: Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister on Russian forces advancing toward Kupyansk

💬 "The enemy has been rapidly advancing since the end of last week in the Kupyansk direction in the Kharkov Region. Now, the enemy is probing for weaknesses in our defense and is vigorously conducting assault operations ... The situation is difficult. Right now, intense battles are raging," Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Hanna Maliar stated on social media.

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📹 Railway traffic has resumed along the Crimean Bridge, with a train from the city of Taman having passed across it, a Sputnik correspondent reports

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Ukrainian SBU drops hint of involvement in Crimean Bridge terror attack

▪️Andriy Yusov, a Ukrainian intel service representative, citing his boss, Kirill Budanov, called the Crimean Bridge “unnecessary”.

▪️The Ukrainian spy agency, the SBU, posted on its Telegram account a modified version of a Ukrainian folk song with lyrics about “a bridge going to sleep”.

▪️Ukrainian lawmaker Alexey Goncharuk called the terrorist attack who took the lives of two parents of a young girl a “victory for Ukraine” and seeks to award everyone involved in the terror attack.

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📹 Specialists work at the scene of Ukrainian terror attack on the Crimean Bridge in a video published by Russia’s Investigative Committee

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📹 Kiev regime most likely used NATO-supplied surface-type drones in Crimean Bridge terrorist attack, DPR official says

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⚡️ Black Sea grain deal suspended, Kremlin says

Moscow will return to the agreement once the second part of the deal, which requires the West to ease restrictions on Russian agricultural and fertilizer exports, will be adhered to.

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❗️Russian MFA: Today, Moscow has officially informed Ukraine, Turkiye and the UN Secretariat that it opposes any extension of the grain deal

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❗️ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on the Crimean Bridge terror attack:

▪️The Kremlin has no illusions about the West’s possible involvement in the terrorist attack on the bridge;

▪️The attack on Crimean Bridge didn’t affect the grain deal's extension;

▪️The Kremlin knows who is behind the attack, and is aware of Kiev's insidious nature;

▪️President Putin handed down instructions to start repairs and restoration work on the Crimean Bridge;

▪️The response to the Crimean Bridge terror attack will be the fulfillment of all the objectives of the special operation still in progress

▪️Vladimir Putin will hold a video conference around 19:00 (Moscow time) to discuss the Crimean Bridge terror incident. The Crimean government will report on the situation from the scene;

▪️Russia does not seek to develop relations with the West but maintains channels of dialogue because they are necessary;

▪️ As far as tourism security in Crimea goes, authorities must remain vigilant and take all necessary measures

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📹 A girl whose parents died in the Crimean Bridge terrorist attack was taken by helicopter to the intensive care unit of a regional hospital

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❗️Black Sea grain deal will be suspended entirely starting July 18, Russian embassy in Belarus said in a note sent to Kiev

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What is the Black Sea grain deal?

The Black Sea Initiative has effectively been suspended, the Kremlin announced on Monday.

How did it come about? What are its terms?

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🇹🇷 Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Black Sea grain deal:

▪️The Black Sea Grain Initiative was important in its moment as it prevented a food crisis;

▪️He expects to hold negotiations with Putin on the grain deal after returning from his tour of the Persian Gulf countries;

▪️Turkiye's foreign minister will hold talks with the Russian foreign minister on the grain deal.

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The Russian Foreign Ministry strongly condemns the terrorist attack against the Crimean Bridge, which is purely a civilian object:

▪️Russia hopes that the international community will give a proper assessment of Kiev's crime - the terrorist act on the Crimean Bridge;

▪️Attempts to disrupt transport links with Crimea and separate it from the rest of Russia are inherently unfeasible, If the investigation into the attack on the Crimean Bridge reveals the involvement of drones of Western origin, it will confirm the complicity of the West.

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The Crimean Bridge terrorist attack could’ve been carried out using the safe passage of Black Sea grain corridor, Russian lawmaker Volodin claims

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

▪️In the Donetsk direction, Russian forces took out over 320 Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries, two infantry fighting vehicles, one Polish Krab self-propelled howitzer, a Rapira anti-tank gun, one US-made M-777 howitzer, as well as an American-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station;

▪️In the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, Russian troops neutralized up to 240 Ukrainian troops, an American-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, two armored fighting vehicles, three Msta-B and one D-30 howitzer;

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Russian forces destroyed up to 35 Ukrainian soldiers, two infantry fighting vehicles, one D-20 howitzer, and one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer;

▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, the actions of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were thwarted, Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 60 soldiers, one US-made M-777 howitzer, two armored fighting vehicles, one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system and a D-30 howitzer;

▪️In the Kherson direction, Russian troops neutralized up to 40 Ukrainian soldiers, one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, Verba infrared homing surface-to-air missile; A command post was hit in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️An ammunition depot was destroyed close to Kramatorsk in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defenses shot down three Storm Shadow cruise missiles, three HIMARS rockets, as well as 12 drones in the DPR, LPR, and Kherson region.

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📹 Throwback to 2022: Ukrainian top diplomat Kuleba was tricked by infamous Russian pranksters into admitting Ukraine was behind the Crimean Bridge explosion

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📹 Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee publishes an up-to-date video on the situation on the Crimean Bridge

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🗣️ On why people migrate to the US:

“The only way to effectively deter migration into the United States is to end US interference in outside countries. People don't just migrate to the United States if the place that they live in is safe... But if you have a country as powerful as the United States, which is constantly meddling in the affairs of your country, is funding gangs, is imposing austerity measures. These are all things, by the way, that are being imposed on Central America by the United States. Then, yes, people are going to leave,” Salifu Mack, an editor at Hood Communist and a member of the Lowcountry Action Committee and the Black Alliance for Peace, told Sputnik.

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